spuldze

Coined in the 1930s, from the same stem as spulgs (“bright”) (q.v.; made into a feminine 5th-declension stem with the ending -e): Proto-Baltic *spelg-, *spilg-, *spulg-, from Proto-Indo-European *pel-, *spel-, *spʰel- (“to shine”) with an extra g.[1]

• IPA^(key): [spûldzɛ]

spuldze f (5th declension)

1. light bulb, lamp (artificial light source based on the heating of a filament, or also of gas, vapors, inside a glass container)

   elektriskā spuldze ― electric bulb

   neona spuldze ― neon lamp, light

   sešdesmit vatu spuldze ― sixty-watt light bulb

   dienasgaismas spuldze ― fluorescent lamp

   dzīvsudraba spuldze ― mercury lamp, light

   spuldze deg spoži ― the light bulb is burning bright

   spuldzes spilgtums ― the brightness of the light bulb

   Meitene pastiepa roku un iededza spuldzi ― the girl stretched her arm and turned on the light

   Helga apsēdās un iededza galda lampu... spuldze bija vāja, abažūrs slāpēja gaismu ― Helga sat down and turned on the table lamp on... the bulb was weak, the lampshade stifled the light

• spalgs, spalgums
• spilgts, spilgtums
• spulgs, spulgums