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digger (iou) and Latvian language (sh)


digger (iou)



digger noun. LME.
[from DIG verb + -ER1.]
gen. A person who or animal which digs. LME.
b. A miner, esp. one who searches for gold. M16.
c. English History. A member of a short-lived 17th-cent. radical Puritan group which believed in communal ownership of land and began cultivating commons. M17.
d. A N. American Indian of any of several tribes who subsisted chiefly on roots. M19.
e. A person who digs for archaeological purposes. E20.
(A part of) a tool or machine for digging. L17.
More fully digger wasp. A wasp that burrows in the soil; esp. any of several usu. solitary wasps of the superfamily Sphecoidea. M19.
An Australian or New Zealander, esp. a private soldier. Freq. as a form of address: mate, pal. colloq. E20.
Comb.: digger's delight Austral. a speedwell, Veronica perfoliata, supposed to indicate the presence of gold; digger wasp: see sense 3 above.

Latvian language (sh)




or Lettish language

East Baltic language spoken by some two million people in the Republic of Latvia and in diaspora communities, including about 85,000 speakers in North America.

Like Lithuanian, it is sparsely attested until the first printed books in Latvian appear in 1585-86. The essentials of the present orthography, which employs the Latin alphabet with a number of diacritics, were adopted in 1908. Literary Latvian is based on the dialect spoken in Riga, Latvia's capital, though in recent years there has been a resurgence of literature in High Latvian (Latgalian), the dialect of eastern Latvia. Relative to Lithuanian, Latvian has undergone a number of striking sound changes, though the grammatical structures of the two Languages are similar.