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daina

See also: Daina and daină

Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French dain, from Late Latin dāmus, a masculine variant of Latin dāma (“fallow deer, buck, doe”). Originally masculine in Old Catalan, daine shifted to daina under the influence of words like cabra (“goat”), ovella (“sheep”), etc. via the plural form daines.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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daina f (plural daines)

  1. fallow deer

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Cimbrian

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Determiner

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daina

  1. feminine of dain

Hausa

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /dái.nàː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [déi.nàː]

Verb

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dainā̀ (grade 1)

  1. to quit doing, to cease

Latvian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dainā (compare Lithuanian daina), from *deî- (“to sing, dance”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyh₁- (“move swiftly”) (compare Old Irish dían (“fast”), Ancient Greek δίω (díō, “I run away, flee”), Sanskrit दीयति (dīyati, “he soars”)). Cf. also Romanian doină.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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daina f (4th declension)

  1. (music) Latvian folksong
    Hypernym: tautasdziesma

Declension

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Declension of daina (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) daina dainas
accusative (akuzatīvs) dainu dainas
genitive (ģenitīvs) dainas dainu
dative (datīvs) dainai dainām
instrumental (instrumentālis) dainu dainām
locative (lokatīvs) dainā dainās
vocative (vokatīvs) daina dainas

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dainā (compare Latvian daĩn̨a),[1] from *deî- (“to sing, dance”) (compare Latvian diêt), probably from Proto-Indo-European *deyh₁- (“move swiftly”) (compare Old Irish dían (“fast”), Ancient Greek δίω (díō, “I run away, flee”), Sanskrit दीयति (dīyati, “he soars”)).[2] Also, compare perhaps Romanian doină (“a type of emotional Romanian folk song”).

Pronunciation

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  • (dainà) IPA(key): [d̪ɐɪ̯ˑˈn̪ɐ]
  • (daĩna) IPA(key): [ˈd̪ɐɪ̯ˑn̪ɐ]

Noun

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dainà f (plural daĩnos) stress pattern 4 [3]

  1. (music) song
    liaudies dainos - folksongs
    dainą dainuoti[4] - to sing a song

Declension

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Declension of dainà
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) dainà daĩnos
genitive (kilmininkas) dainõs dainų̃
dative (naudininkas) daĩnai dainóms
accusative (galininkas) daĩną dainàs
instrumental (įnagininkas) dainà dainomìs
locative (vietininkas) dainojè dainosè
vocative (šauksmininkas) daĩna daĩnos

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “daina”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 112
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “diet”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 532
  3. ^ “daina” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  4. ^ “dainuoti” in Balčikonis, op. cit.

Sudovian

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Etymology

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Noun

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daina

  1. song
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References

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  1. ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 71: “daina ‘dainelė, l. piosienka’ 135.”
  2. ^ “dainà” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. daina sf. ‘Liedchen’; dainid vb. ‘singen’”.
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