vienas

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Latvian

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Numeral

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vienas

  1. inflection of viens:
    1. genitive singular feminine
    2. nominative/accusative plural feminine

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *aiˀnas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos. Baltic cognates include Latvian viêns, Latgalian vīns, Old Prussian ains. Indo-European cognates include German eins, Latin ūnus, Russian оди́н (odín), Polish jeden.

The initial v- is typical for East-Baltic cognates and plausibly comes from an undetermined particle; various theories suggest Lithuanian *visų- (all) (genitive plural)[1] or Baltic *ve / *vi- (“particularly”), from Proto-Indo-European *wi- (apart, separately).[2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈvîə̯.n̪ɐs̪]

Numeral

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Lithuanian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : vienas
    Ordinal : pirmas

víenas (feminine vienà)

  1. one

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Mažiulis, Vytautas (2004) “ains ‘(some)one’”, in Palmaitis, Letas, transl., Prūsų kalbos istorinė gramatika [Historical Grammar of Old Prussian], Vilnus: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, →ISBN, page 77
  2. ^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “vienas”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1544