miegs

From Proto-Baltic *meyg- (Eastern Baltic *mieg-), from Proto-Indo-European *meygʰ-, from the stem *mei- (“to press, to hit”) with an extra -g(ʰ) (whence also Latvian miegt “to press, to squeeze”). The original meaning was thus “closing, pressing together” (the eyelids), from which “sleep”. Cognates include Lithuanian miẽgas, miegóti (“to sleep”), Old Prussian enmigguns (“asleep”), meicte (“to sleep”), maiggun (“sleep (accusative)”), Old Church Slavonic помигати (pomigati, “to blink, to wink”), Russian мигать (migat’), мжить (mžit’, “to doze off, to take a nap”), Ukrainian мигати (myháty, “to blink, to wink”), Bulgarian мигам (mígam), Czech mihati, Polish migać.[1]

• IPA^(key): [mìɛks]

miegs m (1st declension)

1. sleep (the act or state of sleeping, of being asleep)

   salds, dziļš miegs ― sweet, deep sleep

   nakts, rīta miegs ― night, morning sleep

   hipnotiskais miegs ― hypnotic sleep

   miega zāles ― sleep medicine

   miega līdzeklis ― sleeping pills

   miega traucējumi ― sleep disorders

   iegrimt miegā ― to fall into sleep

   runāt miegā ― to talk in one's sleep

   aizdzīt miegu ― to drive sleep away

   tonakt man ilgi nenāca miegs ― that night I couldn't fall asleep (lit. sleep didn't come to me) for a long time

• (poetic) dusa

• miegains

• migt, aizmigt

• gulēt
• (poetic) dusēt