Vēna

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vena"

Livonian

Etymology

Compare Finnish Väinäjoki, Estonian Väina jõgi.

In Estonian väin (archaic form is väinas) means (sea) strait; In Livonian vēna also means a wide estuary or a port. An Indo-European loan word via Proto-Balto-Slavic. Proto-Slavic *dvina < Proto-Indo-European *dʰweynā (compare Dviná, Russian name for Daugava). Indo-European *dʰew- means "to run, to flow"; *dʰew-e-ti "(it) flows, runs"; compare Sanskrit धावति (dhāvati, “run, flow, move”). There's speculated connection with Icelandic dvína "to diminish" (i.e. in this connection as "diminishing, dwindling river"), but maybe it just comes from the abovementioned Indo-European root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veːnɑ/

Proper noun

Vēna

1. River Daugava (the largest river in Latvia)
   • Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA

     Vēna – Väina jõgi – Daugava

     Daugava – Daugava – Daugava

Declension

Declension of Vēna (37)

	singular (ikšlug)	plural (pǟgiņlug)
nominative (nominatīv)	Vēna	–
genitive (genitīv)	Vēna	–
partitive (partitīv)	Veinõ	–
dative (datīv)	Vēnan	–
instrumental (instrumentāl)	Vēnaks	–
illative (illatīv)	Veinõ	–
inessive (inesīv)	Vēnas	–
elative (elatīv)	Vēnast	–