pienas
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *poyHnos, *peyHnos. Cognate with Latvian piẽns (“milk”), Sanskrit पयस् (páyas, “milk”), Persian پینو (pīnū, “butter-milk”). Related to dialectal Žemaitian pýti (“to start to give milk”) (< Proto-Indo-European zero-grade *piH-).
Noun
píenas m (plural píenai) stress pattern 1
- milk
Declension
declension of pienas
| 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 |