Saeima
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English
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Proper noun
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- The Parliament of the Republic of Latvia
Anagrams
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed or adapted from Polish Sejm. Compare Lithuanian Seĩmas.
Juris Alunāns claims he independently coined the word, originally saeims m, from the verb saiet (“to go together”) = sa- + iet.[1][2][3] The prefix sa- is cognate to the *s- in sejm, but the resemblance is otherwise superficial as the verbal roots differ. Regardless, the Latvian term was highly likely to have been influenced by the Polish term, even if one wishes to regard it as a calque or phono-semantic matching instead of a pure borrowing.[4][5][6] Compare the rare hyper-Lithuanized form sueimas introduced by Simonas Daukantas,[7] which is derived from sueĩti (“to gather”, equivalent to Latvian saiet).
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]Saeima f (4th declension)
- Saeima (the Parliament of the Republic of Latvia)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Saeima (4th declension)
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (nominatīvs) | Saeima | Saeimas |
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | Saeimu | Saeimas |
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | Saeimas | Saeimu |
| dative (datīvs) | Saeimai | Saeimām |
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | Saeimu | Saeimām |
| locative (lokatīvs) | Saeimā | Saeimās |
| vocative (vokatīvs) | Saeima | Saeimas |
References
[edit]- ^ Zuicena, Ieva & Migla, Ilga (2008) “Jura Alunāna devums latviešu leksikogrāfijā”, in LU Raksti[1] (in Latvian), volume 731 (PDF), →ISSN, retrieved 2010-05-27, page 75
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “Saeima”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN, page 141
- ^ saiet:1 at tezaurs.lv
- ^ Fraenkel, Ernst (1931) “Kreuzung einheimischer und fremder Synonyma ähnlicher Lautung im Baltischen [Crossing of native and foreign synonyms of similar sound in Baltic]”, in Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie (in German), volume 8, numbers 3–4, Leipzig: Markert & Petters Verlag, →JSTOR, page 424
- ^ Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “saĩmas”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume II, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 755
- ^ Guild, D. G. (1996–1997) “Calquing: Virtue or vice?”, in Linguistica Baltica, volumes 5–6, →ISSN, page 139
- ^ “sueimas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024