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
Mannhardt was preparing to study Lithuanian solar myths, based on Lithuanian and Lettish marriage songs.
From Modern Mythology by Andrew Lang
The Lettish and Australian myths are folk-poetry; they have nothing to do with a disease of language or forgotten meanings of words which become proper names.
From Modern Mythology by Andrew Lang
There are still about one million and a half of people who speak Lituanian in Russia and Prussia, while Lettish is spoken by about one million in Curland and Livonia.
From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Alexander Wilder
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