gaišmatis

Latvian
Gaišmatis

Etymology

From gaišs (“clear, bright”) +‎ mats (“hair”), made into a second-declension masculine noun (ending -is).

Pronunciation
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Noun

gaišmatis m (2nd declension, feminine form: gaišmate)

  1. blond (a man having blond hair)
    mazo, tievo gaišmati Jorens iepazina Ļeņingradas frontē ― Jorens met the small, thin blond (man) on the Leningrad front
    man garām aizsteidzas glīts gaišmatis, nesot lielu kaudzi ķieģeļu ― a handsome blond (man) went past me, carrying a big pile of bricks

Declension
Declension of gaišmatis (2nd declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) gaišmatis gaišmati
accusative (akuzatīvs) gaišmati gaišmatus
genitive (ģenitīvs) gaišmata gaišmatu
dative (datīvs) gaišmatim gaišmatiem
instrumental (instrumentālis) gaišmati gaišmatiem
locative (lokatīvs) gaišmatī gaišmatos
vocative (vokatīvs) gaišmati gaišmati

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