Noun: saime
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | saime |
| Accusative | saimi |
| Genitive | saimes |
| Dative | saimei |
| Instrumental | saimi |
| Locative | saimē |
| Vocative | saime |
Plural
| Nominative | saimes |
| Accusative | saimes |
| Genitive | saimju |
| Dative | saimēm |
| Instrumental | saimēm |
| Locative | saimēs |
| Vocative | saimes |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like saime
pieturzīme,
sakāve,
skrūve,
sadursme,
laukirbe,
biškope,
nenoteiksme,
ceptuve,
nelaime,
tēvzeme,
garumzīme,
lietuve,
lokomotīve,
slēptuve,
ķemme,
šķīve,
taukskābe,
jautājuma zīme,
kuģubūve,
dieve, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *śeimā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-meh₂ (“settlement, village; family”), from the root *tḱey- (“to lie down; to settle, inhabit”). Cognate to Lithuanian šeima (“family”), Russian семья (semʹja), English home. Compare kaimas. See: Russian Nouns '
семья', English Nouns '
home'.
Verbs referencing "saime"
Finnish Nouns
heimo, Latvian Nouns
sieva.
Translations