vaina
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vaina
From Latin vēna. Compare Romansch avaina, Italian vena, Romanian vână, French veine.
vaina f
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wei-, *wai- (with an added suffix -nā-), from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to move, go ahead; to be strong”).
Cognates include Lithuanian vainóti (“to criticize, to scold”) (compare archaic Lithuanian vaina (“error, transgression”)), Old Prussian etwinūt (“to blame”) (maybe a borrowing from Slavic), Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian вина́ (viná), Belarusian віна́ (viná, “fault, guilt, transgression”).[1]
vaina f (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | vaina | vainas |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | vainu | vainas |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | vainas | vainu |
dative (datīvs) | vainai | vainām |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | vainu | vainām |
locative (lokatīvs) | vainā | vainās |
vocative (vokatīvs) | vaina | vainas |
vaina f (plural vainas)