siens
English
Noun
siens
- Obsolete spelling of scion
Anagrams
French
Adjective
siens
- (archaic) masculine plural of sien
Derived terms
- les siens (“his, hers”)
Anagrams
Latvian
Siens
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *šainan, *šeinan, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoinom (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoi-no (“hay”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱei- (“color, usually gray”)). Cognates include Lithuanian šiẽnas (“hay”) (regionally siẽnas), Old Church Slavonic сѣно (sěno, “hay”) (Russian сено (séno), Ukrainian сіно (síno), Bulgarian сено (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
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Declension
Declension of siens (1st declension)
Derived terms
See also
References
- ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “siens”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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