Noun: zelts
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | zelts |
| Accusative | zeltu |
| Genitive | zelta |
| Dative | zeltam |
| Instrumental | zeltu |
| Locative | zeltā |
| Vocative | zelt |
Plural
Sample Sentences
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tīrradņa zelts (gold nuggets)
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zelta rūda (gold ore)
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zelta hlorīds (gold chloride)
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zelta monēta, gredzens, pulkstenis, medaļa (gold coin, ring, clock, medal)
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zelta dzeltens, zeltdzeltens (golden yellow)
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zelta zivtiņa (golden fish)
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viņš ir zelts, ne cilvēks (he is gold, not a person)
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zelta cilvkēs (golden person)
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zelta vārdi (golden words)
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zelta dzīve (golden life)
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zelta kāzas (golden anniversary (50th wedding anniversary))
Nouns inflected like zelts
selēns,
pēkšņums,
valodīgums,
skandijs,
žiglums,
izbrīns,
vēsums,
paradoksālums,
vājums,
badmintons,
oglekļa dioksīds,
lourensijs,
darba lauks,
plānums,
baigums,
sāļums,
adrenalīns,
rēnijs,
rādijs,
brūnums, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Baltic *želtas (“gold”), itself from *žel-t-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). (From a variant *gʰel-, *gʷʰel- comes dzeltens (“yellow”), which was also the original meaning of the adjectival form of zelts.) Cognates include dialectal Lithuanian želtas (“golden, blond”), Old Prussian sealtmeno (/zealtmeno/, “oriole (yellow bird)”) (from *zēltmeno), Proto-Slavic *zolto (Old Church Slavonic злато (zlato), Ukrainian зо́лото (zóloto), Belarusian зо́лата (zólata), Bulgarian злато́ (zlató), Czech zlato, Polish złoto), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “to be yellow, green”), Proto-Germanic *gulþą (Old Norse gull, Old High German gold, German Gold, Dutch goud, Swedish guld, English gold); compare also Persian زر (zar), Northern Kurdish zêrr. See: Czech Nouns '
zlato', Polish Nouns '
złoto', Old Norse Nouns '
gull', German Nouns '
Gold', Dutch Nouns '
goud', Swedish Nouns '
guld', English Nouns '
gold'.
Verbs referencing "zelts"
English Nouns
gold.
Translations