Noun: sieva
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | sieva |
| Accusative | sievu |
| Genitive | sievas |
| Dative | sievai |
| Instrumental | sievu |
| Locative | sievā |
| Vocative | sieva |
Plural
| Nominative | sievas |
| Accusative | sievas |
| Genitive | sievu |
| Dative | sievām |
| Instrumental | sievām |
| Locative | sievās |
| Vocative | sievas |
Sample Sentences
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vīrs un sieva (husband and wife)
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nolūkot sievu (to look for a wife)
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ņemt, apņemt sievu (to take a wife (= to get married))
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sievas vecāki (wife's parents)
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viņa jau divus gadus ir sieva (she has been a wife for two years)
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viņam nav sievas (he doesn't have a wife)
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sievu koris (women's choir)
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tirgus sieva (market woman (who sells at the market))
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istabā ienāca kāda sieva (some woman came into the room)
Nouns inflected like sieva
tulkošana,
secība,
sezona,
saruna,
sajūta,
samaņa,
smarža,
skudra,
sklēra,
muļķība,
pirmdiena,
bebrāda,
skaudība,
kaklarota,
psihiatrija,
vīksna,
vīnoga,
izmaksa,
sešpaka,
melnaugļu aronija, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *śéiwāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱéy-wos, from *ḱey- (“be located; camp, settlement; friendly; from the same home”) with a suffix -wā (from the same stem also Latvian saime (“household”)). The semantic change seems to have been “friendly settlement or household member” > “woman”. Cognate with Sanskrit शेव (śéva, “dear, friendly, honored”), Gothic 𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰-𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰 (heiwa-frauja, “master of the house”), Old High German hiwa (“wife”), hi(w)o (“spouse; servant”), Latin civis (“citizen”) (previously “household member”, “villager”). As Latvian sieva gradually shifted its basic meaning to “wife”, a new term sieviete (“woman”) was coined (in the 19th century). See: Latvian Nouns '
saime', Gothic Nouns '
𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰', Latin Nouns '
civis', Latvian Nouns '
sieva'.
Verbs referencing "sieva"
Latvian Nouns
sieva.
Translations