Crossword-Solution: LETTISH
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lettish | a. | Of or pertaining to the Letts. |
| Lettish | n. | The language spoken by the Letts. See Lettic. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LETTISH | anagram | LITHEST, THELIST, THISTLE |
We have 4 clues for the answer “LETTISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| LETTS, language of the | 1 answer |
| Official language of Latvia | 1 answer |
| Rigan's language | 1 answer |
| Baltic tongue | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LETTISH (5)
John's Day (the summer solstice), every Lettish peasant is said to devote his leisure hours to swinging diligently; for the higher he rises in the air the higher will his flax grow that season.
And yet, strange to say, in the Lettish and Livonian languages, in the north of Europe, mayse signifies bread; in Irish, maise is food, and in the Old High German, maz is meat.
But Gervaise has grounds for his assertion that _wér_ signifies man; it is so in Anglo-Saxon, _vair_ in Gothic, _vir_ in Latin, _verr_, in Icelandic, _vîra_, Zend, _wirs_, old Prussian, _wirs_, Lettish, _vîra_, Sanskrit, _bîr_, Bengalee.
The most complete of these studies is the last, in which are cited German, Latin, Dutch, English, French, Spanish, Greek, Croatian, Albanian, Bulgarian, Polish, Russian, Lettish, Turkish, and Indian versions.
That I do not, however, "throw out the babe with the bath," as the proverb goes, my essay on Lettish sun myths in Bastian-Hartmann's Ethnological Journal will bear witness.' Such is Mannhardt's conclusion.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1973–2019).