mīls
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Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *meilas, from Proto-Indo-European *meyh₁l-o-s, from *meyh₁- (“soft, tender”). Cognate with Lithuanian mielas (“nice, sweet, cute, dear”), Old Prussian mijls (“sweet, dear”), Proto-Slavic *mìlъ (“soft, mild, gentle, agreeable, pleasant, sweet, dear”)) and Latin mītis (“weak, tender, soft”).
Adjective
mīls (definite mīlais, comparative mīlāks, superlative vismīlākais, adverb mīli)
Declension
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
| nominative (nominatīvs) | mīls | mīli | mīla | mīlas | |||||
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | mīlu | mīlus | mīlu | mīlas | |||||
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | mīla | mīlu | mīlas | mīlu | |||||
| dative (datīvs) | mīlam | mīliem | mīlai | mīlām | |||||
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | mīlu | mīliem | mīlu | mīlām | |||||
| locative (lokatīvs) | mīlā | mīlos | mīlā | mīlās | |||||
| vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of mīls
References
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “mielas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 316
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