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miets

miets

Latvian

Sētas miets

Noun

miets m (1st declension)

  1. (pointy) stick, stake, picket, post, pole
    sētas miets‎ ― fence picket
    mietu žogs‎ ― palisade (lit. picket fence)
    paegļa miets‎ ― juniper pole
    ozola miets‎ ― oak pole
    piesiet augļu kociņu pie mieta‎ ― to tie a small fruit tree to a pole (to support it while it grows)

Declension

References

  1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “miets”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *meyt-, *miet-, from Proto-Indo-European *mēyt-, *meyt-, from *mēy-, *mey- ‎(“stake, pole”) with an extra -t, perhaps from the stem *mē- ‎(“to delimit; to measure, to survey”), since stakes in line were one of the first means of marking or delimiting (cf. Latin mēta ‎(“post; target”), mētor ‎(“to delimit, to measure”)). Cognates include Lithuanian miẽtas, Old Irish methas ‎(“border sign”) (< *mitostu-), Sanskrit मेथिः ‎(methíḥ, “pole, pillar”), Old Armenian մոյթ ‎(moytʿ, “support, prop, pillar”), Latin mēta ‎(“cone, pointy post; border sign; target”) (< *mē(i)tā).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mìɛts]

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