sapnis

From a parallel i-stem form to Proto-Baltic *sapnas, from Proto-Indo-European *supnós, *swépnos, *swópnos (“sleep”), *swópniyom (“dream”), from a stem *seup-, *swep, *sup- (“sleep”), from *seu- (meaning indeterminate, perhaps “to lay,” “to put”) with an extra element -p. In Baltic, the words for “dream” and “sleep” merged, and the initial consonant was simplified (sw > s). Cognates include Lithuanian sãpnas, dialectal sãpnis, sapnỹs, Proto-Slavic *sъnъ < *supnu (Old Church Slavonic сънъ (sŭnŭ), Bulgarian сън (sǎn), Czech, Polish sen), Old Irish sūan, Cornish hon (“sleep”) (< *swopnos), Old English swefn (“sleep, dream”) (< *swepnós), Hittite šup- (“to sleep”), Sanskrit स्वप्न (svapna, “sleep, dream”), Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”) (< *supnos), ὕπνιον (húpnion, “dream”), Latin somnus (“sleep”) (< *swepnos, *swopnos), somnium (“dream”), sopor (“deep sleep”).[1]

sapnis m (2nd declension)

1. dream (images seen during sleep)

   sapņa saturs ― dream content

   sapņa sižets ― dream story, plot

   redzēt sapni ― to have (lit. see) a dream

2. dream (a desire which one wishes to see come true)

   sapnis par laimi ― dream of happiness

   pārvērst sapni par īstenību ― to turn a dream into reality

   jaunības sapņi ― youthful dreams

   nepiepildāms sapnis ― an impossible, unfulfillable dream

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