maize – Latvian noun declension

Noun: maize
Hyphenation:

Gender: Feminine Declension:

Singular

Nominative	maize
Accusative	maizi
Genitive	maizes
Dative	maizei
Instrumental	maizi
Locative	maizē
Vocative	maize

Plural

Nominative	maizes
Accusative	maizes
Genitive	maižu
Dative	maizēm
Instrumental	maizēm
Locative	maizēs
Vocative	maizes

Sample Sentences

kviešu, rudzu maize (wheat, rye bread)
neraudzēta maize (unleavened bread)
maizes klaips, šķēle (loaf, slice of bread)
maizes garoza (bread crust)
maizes zupa (bread soup)
cept maizi (to bake bread)
maizes mīkla (bread dough)
maizes ceptuve (bakery (lit. bread baking place))
maizes veikals (bakery (lit. bread shop))
maizes krāsns (bread oven)
apziest maizi ar sviestu (spread butter on bread)
ēst maizi ar desu (to eat bread with sausage)
focaccia ir viena no populārākajām itāļu maizēm (focaccia is one of the most popular Italian breads)
mīcīt maizi (to knead bread)
maize rūgst (the bread (dough) is fermenting)
priecīgākā diena, kad klētī sāk smaržot jaunā maize (joyful day, when the barn starts to smell like new bread (= wheat))
viņš var ēst tēva maizi bez kādām rūpēm (he can eat his father's bread without any worries)
metāls ir rūpniecības maize (metal is the bread of industry)
J. Vītols bija atradis darbu un maizi Pēterpilī (J. Vītols had found work and bread in Pēterpils (St. Petersburg))
ja kāds aiziet citā maizē: zinātnieka vai inženiera, vai mākslinieka maizē... (if someone goes into another bread (= profession): the scientific or engineering, or the artistic bread (= profession)...)

Nouns inflected like maize

slodze, šimpanze, palodze, ēdienreize, sintēze, lielkņaze, nabadze, dzeguze, neiroze, kinetoze, prognoze, aizsardze, pieredze, avīze, glāze, milze, maize, jūdze, blūze, bērze, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *maiž-, an ablaut variant of *miež- (whence Latvian mieži (“barley”)), from Proto-Indo-European *meyǵ-, probably from the stem *h₂meh₁- (“to cut; to mow”) modified into *mey-, and with an added element *ǵ (whence Proto-Baltic *ž, whence Latvian z). Cognates include Old Prussian mayse (“barley”) (misspelled as wayse in the 16th-century source), Old Iranian *maiz- "to sow". See: Latvian Nouns 'mieži'.