saldus

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See also: Saldus and saldūs

Latvian

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Adjective

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saldus

  1. accusative plural masculine of salds

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *salˀdus, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂el-d-u-, an extended form of *sh₂el-, *seh₂l- (salt); the *-d- may have been added by analogy with the *-d- in Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂d- (sweet). Compare the related verb sálti (sweeten), as well as Latvian salds, Proto-Slavic *soldъkъ.[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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saldùs m (feminine saldì, neuter saldù) stress pattern 3

  1. sweet
    Antonym: kartus

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “saldus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 387-8