Noun: miets
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | miets |
| Accusative | mietu |
| Genitive | mieta |
| Dative | mietam |
| Instrumental | mietu |
| Locative | mietā |
| Vocative | miet |
Plural
| Nominative | mieti |
| Accusative | mietus |
| Genitive | mietu |
| Dative | mietiem |
| Instrumental | mietiem |
| Locative | mietos |
| Vocative | mieti |
Sample Sentences
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sētas miets (fence picket)
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mietu žogs (palisade (lit. picket fence))
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paegļa miets (juniper pole)
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ozola miets (oak pole)
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piesiet augļu kociņu pie mieta (to tie a small fruit tree to a pole (to support it while it grows))
Nouns inflected like miets
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
From Proto-Baltic *meyt-, *miet-, from Proto-Indo-European *mēyt-, *meyt-, from *mēy-, *mey- (“stake, pole”) with an extra -t, perhaps from the stem *mē- (“to delimit; to measure, to survey”), since stakes in line were one of the first means of marking or delimiting (cf. Latin mēta (“post; target”), mētor (“to delimit, to measure”)). Cognates include Lithuanian miẽtas, Old Irish methas (“border sign”) (< *mitostu-), Sanskrit मेथिः (methíḥ, “pole, pillar”), Old Armenian մոյթ (moytʻ, “support, prop, pillar”), Latin mēta (“cone, pointy post; border sign; target”) (< *mē(i)tā). See: Latin Nouns '
mēta', Latin Nouns '
mēta'.
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