miegs

miegs

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *meyg- (Eastern Baltic *mieg-), from Proto-Indo-European *meygʰ-, from the stem *mey- (“to press, to hit”) with an extra -g(ʰ)- (whence also Latvian miegt “to press, to squeeze”). The original meaning was thus “closing, pressing together” (the eyelids), from which “sleep”. Cognates include Lithuanian miẽgas, miegóti (“to sleep”), Old Prussian enmigguns (“asleep”), meicte (“to sleep”), maiggun (“sleep (accusative)”), Old Church Slavonic помигати (pomigati, “to blink, to wink”), Russian мигать (migatʹ), мжить (mžitʹ, “to doze off, to take a nap”), Ukrainian мига́ти (myháty, “to blink, to wink”), Bulgarian ми́гам (mígam), Czech mihati, Polish migać.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mìɛks]

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Noun

miegs m (1st declension)

1. sleep (the act or state of sleeping, of being asleep)

   salds, dziļš miegs ― sweet, deep sleep

   nakts, rīta miegs ― night, morning sleep

   hipnotiskais miegs ― hypnotic sleep

   miega zāles ― sleep medicine

   miega līdzeklis ― sleeping pills

   miega traucējumi ― sleep disorders

   iegrimt miegā ― to fall into sleep

   runāt miegā ― to talk in one's sleep

   aizdzīt miegu ― to drive sleep away

   tonakt man ilgi nenāca miegs ― that night I couldn't fall asleep (lit. sleep didn't come to me) for a long time

Declension

Declension of miegs (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	miegs	miegi
accusative (akuzatīvs)	miegu	miegus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	miega	miegu
dative (datīvs)	miegam	miegiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	miegu	miegiem
locative (lokatīvs)	miegā	miegos
vocative (vokatīvs)	mieg	miegi

Synonyms

• snauda
• snaudiens
• sīmanis
• (poetic) dusa

Derived terms

• miegains
• miegainība
• miegaini

Related terms

• migt, aizmigt

See also

• gulēt
• (poetic) dusēt

References

1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “miegs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN