iekšan

Latvian

Etymology

An old illative form of iekša (“interior, inside”), found in 16th- and 17th-century Latvian sources. The locative form iekšā (“outside”) has replaced it in contemporary Latvian.[1]

Adverb

iekšan

  1. (archaic) to, toward the inside, into

Synonyms

References
  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “iekša”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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