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īsts

Pronunciation: [īːsts]

“īsts” is a Latvian word. Its 10 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. real, true, genuine, not false or artificial
  2. the real, the true (that which corresponds to reality but is hidden behind external appearances)
  3. the real, the true (official, registered, corresponding to documents)
  4. true, real (which corresponds to certain ideals or requirements)
  5. true, real (deeply felt, experienced; intense, significant)
  6. true, real (not imaginary, not just apparent, not a model or image)
  7. true (the best part, a prototypical example, one felt to be more typical of the true nature of something)
  8. true, right (the most appropriate, the most suitable, the best, the correct)
  9. the one, the true one, the one and only (a person's true love, soulmate)
  10. true, genuine (which has real blood relations)

Etymology

This word has the same origin as Latin demonstrative pronoun iste (“this”): a combination of Proto-Baltic *jis (cf. Lithuanian jis (“he”)), from Proto-Indo-European *éy (“third-person pronoun”), and *te, from *tód (“that”) (also the source of tas (“that”), q.v.). The original meaning was therefore demonstrative — “that very one” — from which came the sense of “same, real, legitimate, exact” and…

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