daina

See also: Daina and daină

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dain, from Late Latin dāmus, a masculine variant of Latin dāma (“fallow deer, buck, doe”). Originally masculine in Old Catalan, daine shifted to daina under the influence of words like cabra (“goat”), ovella (“sheep”), etc. via the plural form daines.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈdaj.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈdaj.na]

Noun

daina f (plural daines)

1. fallow deer

Further reading

• “daina” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Cimbrian

Determiner

daina

1. feminine of dain

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dái.nàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [déi.nàː]

Verb

dainā̀ (grade 1)

1. to quit doing, to cease

Latvian

Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:

daina

Wikipedia ^lv

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dainā (compare Lithuanian daina), from *deî- (“to sing, dance”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyh₁- (“move swiftly”) (compare Old Irish dían (“fast”), Ancient Greek δίω (díō, “I run away, flee”), Sanskrit दीयति (dīyati, “he soars”)). Cf. also Romanian doină.

Pronunciation

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Noun

daina f (4th declension)

1. (music) Latvian folksong

   Hypernym: tautasdziesma

Declension

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	daina	dainas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	dainu	dainas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	dainas	dainu
dative (datīvs)	dainai	dainām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	dainu	dainām
locative (lokatīvs)	dainā	dainās
vocative (vokatīvs)	daina	dainas

Declension of daina (4th declension)

Lithuanian

Lithuanian Wikipedia has an article on:

daina

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Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dainā (compare Latvian daĩn̨a),^[1] from *deî- (“to sing, dance”) (compare Latvian diêt), probably from Proto-Indo-European *deyh₁- (“move swiftly”) (compare Old Irish dían (“fast”), Ancient Greek δίω (díō, “I run away, flee”), Sanskrit दीयति (dīyati, “he soars”)).^[2] Also, compare perhaps Romanian doină (“a type of emotional Romanian folk song”).

Pronunciation

• (dainà) IPA^(key): [d̪ɐɪ̯ˑˈn̪ɐ]
• (daĩna) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪ɐɪ̯ˑn̪ɐ]

Noun

dainà f (plural daĩnos) stress pattern 4 ^[3]

1. (music) song

   liaudies dainos - folksongs

   dainą dainuoti^[4] - to sing a song

Declension

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	dainà	daĩnos
genitive (kilmininkas)	dainõs	dainų̃
dative (naudininkas)	daĩnai	dainóms
accusative (galininkas)	daĩną	dainàs
instrumental (įnagininkas)	dainà	dainomìs
locative (vietininkas)	dainojè	dainosè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	daĩna	daĩnos

Declension of dainà

Derived terms

• (nouns) dainininkas m/dainininkė f, dainius m/dainė f
• (verb) dainuoti

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2015) “daina”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 112
2. Derksen, Rick (2015) “diet”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 532
3. “daina” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
4. “dainuoti” in Balčikonis, op. cit.

Sudovian

Etymology

• From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dainā, from *deî- (“to sing, dance”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyh₁- (“move swiftly”).
• Compare Lithuanian dainà, Latvian daĩņa (possible Lithuanism), however Old Prussian grīmikan (“song”).^[1][2]

Noun

daina

1. song
   • “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 135, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):

     piosienka [piosenka] — daina

     piosienka [piosenka] — song

Related terms

• dainid (“to sing”)

References

1. Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 71: “daina ‘dainelė, l. piosienka’ 135.”
2. “dainà” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. daina sf. ‘Liedchen’; dainid vb. ‘singen’”.