different between swims vs slims

English

Noun

swims

1. plural of swim

Verb

swims

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of swim

English

Verb

slims

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of slim

Noun

slims

1. plural of slim

Anagrams

• misls

Latvian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German slim or from Middle Dutch slim (“twisted, crooked; bad, evil”); compare also German schlimm (“bad, evil; (col.) sick”). First attested in the 17th century, mostly with meanings such as “bad”, “useless”, “inappropriate”, “evil”, or “wild”, or more rarely “sick”. This last meaning “sick” was apparently more frequent in Southern Kurzeme dialects; in Vidzeme, this meaning was not attested still in the 18th century. It became more frequent in written Latvian with the works of G. F. Stenders in the late 18th century, especially his dictionary, in which German krank was translated as slims, and in which slims was no longer translated as “bad,” “useless”. Stenders also coined the terms slim?ba, slimnieks, apslimt and slim?ties (but curiously not slimot, which appeared only in the 19th century).

Pronunciation

Adjective

slims (definite slimais, comparative slim?ks, superlative visslim?kais, adverb slimi)

1. sick, ill, diseased (having a disturbance in the normal functioning of the body or one or some of its parts)

Declension

Antonyms

• vesels

Derived terms

• slim?ba
• slimn?ca
• slim?gs
• slimnieks, slimniece
• slimot

References