Lettish
Americanadjective
noun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Lettish
Example Sentences
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Russian for more than 100 years, the country was dominated for 700 years before that by German barons, holding the Lettish peasants as serfs.
From Time Magazine Archive
In snowbound Lettish villages, in orange-scented Georgian watering places, in Uzbek desert oases, the same red-and-white signs marked the local "agitpunkt" campaign headquarters for the 1,364 unopposed candidates running for election to the Supreme Soviet.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the substance of many of the spells must be older still, since the incantations prescribed show a remarkable similarity to old German, Russian and Lettish charms.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot
Their kind benefactor perceiving this, wrote and circulated a short pamphlet in the Lettish language of the country, explaining the intention, object, and advantages of the new savings-bank.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 by William Chambers
On what intelligible grounds, then, were the Finnish, the Lettish, the Esthonian, the Georgian, the Ukrainian problems excluded from it?
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon
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