siens
English
Noun
siens
- Obsolete spelling of scion
Anagrams
- I-ness, Neiss, Nisse, SINEs, Sensi, seins, sines, snies
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sjɛ̃/
Adjective
siens
- (archaic) masculine plural of sien
Derived terms
- les siens (“his, hers”)
Anagrams
- seins
Latvian
Siens
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *šainan, *šeinan, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoynom (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoy-no- (“hay”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“color, usually gray”)). Cognates include Lithuanian šiẽnas (“hay”) (regionally siẽnas), Old Church Slavonic сѣно (sěno, “hay”) (Russian се́но (séno), Ukrainian сі́но (síno), Bulgarian сено́ (senó), Czech seno, Polish siano), and possibly Ancient Greek κοινά (koiná, “cattle food”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [sìens]
Noun
siens m (1st declension)
- hay (dried grass used as animal fodder)
- siena guba, stirpa, kaudze ― hay stack
- siena grābeklis, dakšas ― hay rake, fork
- siena pļava ― hay meadow
- siena laiks ― hay time (i.e., time to mow hay)
- pļaut, grābt sienu ― to mow hay
Declension
Declension of siens (1st declension)
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (nominatīvs) | siens | sieni |
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | sienu | sienus |
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | siena | sienu |
| dative (datīvs) | sienam | sieniem |
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | sienu | sieniem |
| locative (lokatīvs) | sienā | sienos |
| vocative (vokatīvs) | sien | sieni |
Derived terms
- siena drudzis
- siena mēnesis
See also
- gulta
References
- Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “siens”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN