Pizā

See also: piza, and Piza

Livonian

Etymology

Historically Pissen (attested from 1502 as weg, den von Stanszen vnnd Piszen herkombt) – Latvian Miķeļbāka, Pizesciems (Pize) or officially Miķeļtornis, Livonian Pizā. This toponym could be of Baltic origin: compare Old Prussian Pysekaym (1384), Pisdekaym (1388), Piselauk (1419), and parallels can be found in Lithuanian toponymy as well, e.g. Pisa (river); compare also Latvian Pisiņš (lake), Pisupīte, etc. The Lithuanian linguist A. Vanagas connects all these toponyms with Latvian pisa (“a bog, marsh, swamp without a bottom where only small birches and firs grow”), pise (“very thick forest”). An Old Prussian personal name Pisz (1261) should be noted too.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pizɑː/

Proper noun

Pizā

1. Miķeļtornis (a village in Courland, Latvia)
   • Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA

     Pizā – Pizā – Miķeļtornis

     Miķeļtornis – Miķeļtornis – Miķeļtornis

Declension

Declension of Pizā (39)

	singular (ikšlug)	plural (pǟgiņlug)
nominative (nominatīv)	Pizā	–
genitive (genitīv)	Pizā	–
partitive (partitīv)	Pizzõ	–
dative (datīv)	Pizān	–
instrumental (instrumentāl)	Pizāks	–
illative (illatīv)	Pizzõ	–
inessive (inesīv)	Pizās	–
elative (elatīv)	Pizāst	–