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]píenas m (plural píenai) stress pattern 1
Declension
[edit]Declension of píenas
| singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | píenas | píenai |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | píeno | píenų |
| dative (naudininkas) | píenui | píenams |
| accusative (galininkas) | píeną | píenus |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | píenu | píenais |
| locative (vietininkas) | píene | píenuose |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | píene | píenai |
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