miets

Latvian

Sētas miets

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *meyt-, *miet-, from Proto-Indo-European *mēyt-, *meyt-, from *mēy-, *mey- (stake, pole) with an extra -t, perhaps from the stem *mē- (to delimit; to measure, to survey), since stakes in line were one of the first means of marking or delimiting (cf. Latin mēta (post; target), mētor (to delimit, to measure)). Cognates include Lithuanian miẽtas, Old Irish methas (border sign) (< *mitostu-), Sanskrit मेथिः (methíḥ, pole, pillar), Old Armenian մոյթ (moytʿ, support, prop, pillar), Latin mēta (cone, pointy post; border sign; target) (< *mē(i)tā).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mìɛts]
(file)

Noun

miets m (1st declension)

  1. (pointy) stick, stake, picket, post, pole
    sētas mietsfence picket
    mietu žogspalisade (lit. picket fence)
    paegļa mietsjuniper pole
    ozola mietsoak pole
    piesiet augļu kociņu pie mietato tie a small fruit tree to a pole (to support it while it grows)

Declension

References

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