mežs – Latvian noun declension

Noun: mežs
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension:

Singular

Nominative	mežs
Accusative	mežu
Genitive	meža
Dative	mežam
Instrumental	mežu
Locative	mežā
Vocative	mežs

Plural

Nominative	meži
Accusative	mežus
Genitive	mežu
Dative	mežiem
Instrumental	mežiem
Locative	mežos
Vocative	meži

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like mežs

vēders, akvārijs, ziloņkauls, iekaisums, šāvējs, ģitārists, ābols, dievs, ezers, tārps, omārs, bērns, kakls, kalns, kauls, putns, zieds, gājiens, grāmatsējējs, deguns, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. From earlier *mežas (genitive *meža, also yielding *meža-s by analogy), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *medjas, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle; in-between”). The original meaning was “(that which is) in the middle, in-between” > “forest” (since long ago villages were like little islands between stretches of forest, “what is between (villages)” = “forest”).
2. Cognates include Lithuanian mẽdis (“tree, wood”), dialectal mẽdžias (“tree, forest”), Old Prussian median (“forest”), Sudovian mejdo (“tree”) (< *mēdo), Proto-Slavic *meďa, *meďu (Russian межа́ (mežá, “balk, unplowed strip of land; border; (dial.) little forest”), ме́жду (méždu, “between, in-between”), Belarusian and Ukrainian межа́ (mežá, “balk; border; line”), Bulgarian межда́ (meždá), Czech mez, Polish miedza (“balk; border”)), Old Irish mide (“middle”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌹𐍃 (midjis), Old High German mitti, German Mitte, English middle, Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos), Latin medius. See: Czech Nouns 'mez', Polish Nouns 'miedza', German Nouns 'Mitte', English Nouns 'middle', Ancient Greek Nouns 'μέσος', Latin Nouns 'medius'.

Verbs referencing "mežs"

Finnish Nouns metsä, Latvian Nouns vidus.

Translations