Noun: maiss
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | maiss |
| Accusative | maisu |
| Genitive | maisa |
| Dative | maisam |
| Instrumental | maisu |
| Locative | maisā |
| Vocative | mais |
Plural
| Nominative | maisi |
| Accusative | maisus |
| Genitive | maisu |
| Dative | maisiem |
| Instrumental | maisiem |
| Locative | maisos |
| Vocative | maisi |
Sample Sentences
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audekla, papīra maiss (cloth, paper sack)
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tukšs, pilns, caurs mais (empty, full, leaky sack)
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iebērt maisā miltus (to pour flour into a sack)
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miltu, cukura maisi (flour, sugar sacks)
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sabērt pagrabā desmit maisu kartupeļu (to pour, store ten sacks of potatoes in the basement)
Nouns inflected like maiss
gredzens,
greznums,
sniegs,
salāts,
sakars,
diftongs,
smaids,
sonets,
sivēns,
dienests,
piecnieks,
skudrs,
skvērs,
skaits,
pacients,
vilciens,
realizējums,
skatiens,
izskats,
spoguļattēls, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-Baltic *maiš-, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *maišás, from Proto-Indo-European *moysós, *moi-sḱo- (“sheep; skin”).
2. Cognates include Lithuanian mai̇̃šas (“sack”), Old Prussian moasis (mōsis, “bellows”) (from *mōi- from *mai-), Old Church Slavonic мѣхъ (měxŭ, “bag”), Russian мех (mex, “fur, bellows”), Czech měch (“sack, bellows”), Polish miech (“sack, bellows”), Old Norse meiss (“basket”), Old High German meisa (“pannier”), Middle Low German meise (“keg, barrel”), Sanskrit मेष (meṣa, “ram, sheep; sheepskin, fur”). See: Russian Nouns '
мех', Czech Nouns '
měch', Polish Nouns '
miech'.
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