sapnis

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *swápnas, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos.

Noun

sapnis m (2nd declension)[1]

  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

Declension
Declension of sapnis (2nd declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) sapnis sapņi
accusative (akuzatīvs) sapni sapņus
genitive (ģenitīvs) sapņa sapņu
dative (datīvs) sapnim sapņiem
instrumental (instrumentālis) sapni sapņiem
locative (lokatīvs) sapnī sapņos
vocative (vokatīvs) sapni sapņi

Derived terms

See also

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) “sapnas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 389: “*su(o)pno-”
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.