sudrabs

Latvian

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Etymology

From a common Balto-Slavic and Germanic stem for “silver”, not attested in other branches of Indo-European. Cognates include Lithuanian sidãbras, dialectal sudãbras, archaic sidrabas (compare Latvian dialectal forms sudabrs, sidrabs), Old Prussian siraplis (accusative form sirablan), Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро (sĭrebro) (Russian серебро́ (serebró)), Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌱𐍂 (silubr), German Silber, English silver.[1]

Noun

Chemical element
Ag
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sudrabs m (1st declension)

  1. silver (precious metal; chemical element, with atomic number 47.)
    tīrradņa sudrabsvirgin silver
    sudraba rūdasilver ore
    sudraba sakausējumisilver alloys
    sudraba nitrāts, hlorīdssilver nitrate, chloride
    sudraba karotesilver spoon
    sudraba medaļasilver medal
    sudraba kāzassilver wedding (i.e., 20th anniversary)
  2. (adjectival genitive; speaking of sounds) pure, clear, clean
    viņas balsij sudraba skaņaher voice has a silver sound

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References

  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “sudrabs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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