Vēna

See also: vena, véna, Véna, veña, vēna, venă, Ven’a, and vēnā

Livonian

Etymology

Compare Finnish Väinäjoki, Estonian Väina jõgi.

In Estonian väin (archaic form is väinas) means (sea) strait; In Livonian vēna also means a wide estuary or a port. An Indo-European loan word via Proto-Balto-Slavic. Proto-Slavic *dveinā < Proto-Indo-European *dhweinā (compare Dviná, Russian name for Daugava). Indo-European *dhew- means "to run, to flow"; *dhew-e-ti "(it) flows, runs"; compare Sanskrit धावति (dhāvati, “run, flow, move”). There's speculated connection with Icelandic dvína "to diminish" (i.e. in this connection as "diminishing, dwindling river"), but maybe it just comes from the abovementioned Indo-European root.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /veːnɑ/

Proper noun

Vēna

River Daugava (the largest river in Latvia)
- Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA
  Vēna – Väina jõgi – Daugava
  Daugava – Daugava – Daugava

Declension

Declension of Vēna (37)

	singular (ikšlug)	plural (pǟgiņlug)
nominative (nominatīv)	Vēna	–
genitive (genitīv)	Vēna	–
partitive (partitīv)	Veinõ	–
dative (datīv)	Vēnan	–
instrumental (instrumentāl)	Vēnaks	–
illative (illatīv)	Veinõ	–
inessive (inesīv)	Vēnas	–
elative (elatīv)	Vēnast	–

References

http://www.tieteessatapahtuu.fi/013/kesk.htm (in Finnish)

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[1] ttp://www.tieteessatapahtuu.fi/013/kesk.htm (in Finnish)