pienas

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *poyHnos, *peyHnos (“milk, fat”).[1] Cognate with Latvian piens (“milk”), Sanskrit पयस् (páyas, “milk”), Persian پینو (pînû, “butter-milk”). Related to dialectal Samogitian pýti (“to start to give milk”) (< Proto-Indo-European zero-grade *piH-).

Noun

píenas m (plural píenai) stress pattern 1

  1. milk

Declension

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) “pienas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 353-4
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