siens

English

Noun

siens

1. Obsolete spelling of scion

Anagrams

• I-ness, Neiss, Nisse, SINEs, Sensi, seins, sines, snies

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sjɛ̃/

Adjective

siens

1. (archaic) masculine plural of sien

Derived terms

• les siens (“his, hers”)

Anagrams

• seins

Latvian

Siens

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *šainan, *šeinan, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoynom (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoy-no- (“hay”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“color, usually gray”)). Cognates include Lithuanian šiẽnas (“hay”) (regionally siẽnas), Old Church Slavonic сѣно (sěno, “hay”) (Russian се́но (séno), Ukrainian сі́но (síno), Bulgarian сено́ (senó), Czech seno, Polish siano), and possibly Ancient Greek κοινά (koiná, “cattle food”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sìens]

Noun

siens m (1st declension)

1. hay (dried grass used as animal fodder)

   siena guba, stirpa, kaudze ― hay stack

   siena grābeklis, dakšas ― hay rake, fork

   siena pļava ― hay meadow

   siena laiks ― hay time (i.e., time to mow hay)

   pļaut, grābt sienu ― to mow hay

Declension

Declension of siens (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	siens	sieni
accusative (akuzatīvs)	sienu	sienus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	siena	sienu
dative (datīvs)	sienam	sieniem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	sienu	sieniem
locative (lokatīvs)	sienā	sienos
vocative (vokatīvs)	sien	sieni

Derived terms

• siena drudzis
• siena mēnesis

See also

• gulta