saime

English

Noun

saime

1. Alternative form of seim

Estonian

Verb

saime

1. first-person plural past indicative of saama

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *śeimā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-meh₂ (“settlement, village; family”), from the root *tḱey- (“to lie down; to settle, inhabit”). Cognate to Lithuanian šeima (“family”), Russian семья (semʹja), English home. Compare kaimas.

Noun

saime f (5th declension)

1. family
2. household
3. servants
4. domestics

Declension

Declension of saime (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	saime	saimes
accusative (akuzatīvs)	saimi	saimes
genitive (ģenitīvs)	saimes	saimju
dative (datīvs)	saimei	saimēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	saimi	saimēm
locative (lokatīvs)	saimē	saimēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	saime	saimes

Related terms

• ģimene
• cilts
• dzimta
• saimniecība
• pulks
• pulciņš
• ļaudis

Old French

Etymology

From saim / saïm / sain, from Latin sagīna.

Noun

saime oblique singular, f (oblique plural saimes, nominative singular saime, nominative plural saimes)

1. fat, cream