meija

Latvian

stage decorated with meijas

Etymology

From Middle Dutch meye or Middle Low German meige ([meije], “decorated May tree; a green branch (for May festivities)”), the older sense of the word being the month of May.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [mēīja]

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Noun

meija f (4th declension)

(baby birches used to decorate the premises leading up to Midsummer festivities (Līgo))
katrs Latvijas iedzīvotājs valsts mežos drīkst nocirst piecas meijas ― every inhabitant of Latvia is allowed to chop down [up to] five meijas in state owned forests^[2]

Declension

Declension of meija (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	meija	meijas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	meiju	meijas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	meijas	meiju
dative (datīvs)	meijai	meijām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	meiju	meijām
locative (lokatīvs)	meijā	meijās
vocative (vokatīvs)	meija	meijas

References

^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “meija”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
^ la.lv

[1] Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “meija”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

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