pienas
Lithuanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *poyHnos, *peyHnos (“milk, fat”).[1] Cognate with Latvian piens (“milk”), Sanskrit पयस् (páyas, “milk”), Persian پینو (pînû, “butter-milk”). Related to dialectal Samogitian pýti (“to start to give milk”) (< Proto-Indo-European zero-grade *piH-).
Noun
[edit]pi̇́enas m (plural pi̇́enai) stress pattern 1
Declension
[edit]| singular (vienaskaita) |
plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | pi̇́enas | pi̇́enai |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | pi̇́eno | pi̇́enų |
| dative (naudininkas) | pi̇́enui | pi̇́enams |
| accusative (galininkas) | pi̇́eną | pi̇́enus |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | pi̇́enu | pi̇́enais |
| locative (vietininkas) | pi̇́ene | pi̇́enuose |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | pi̇́ene | pi̇́enai |
References
[edit]- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “pienas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 353-4