mīls
Latvian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *meilas, from Proto-Indo-European *meyh₁l-o-s, from *meyh₁- (“soft, tender”). Cognate with Lithuanian mielas (“nice, sweet, cute, dear”), Old Prussian mijls (“sweet, dear”), Proto-Slavic *mìlъ (“soft, mild, gentle, agreeable, pleasant, sweet, dear”)) and Latin mītis (“weak, tender, soft”).
Adjective
mīls (definite mīlais, comparative mīlāks, superlative vismīlākais, adverb mīli)
Declension
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of mīls
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
| nominative (nominatīvs) | mīls | mīli | mīla | mīlas | |||||
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | mīlu | mīlus | mīlu | mīlas | |||||
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | mīla | mīlu | mīlas | mīlu | |||||
| dative (datīvs) | mīlam | mīliem | mīlai | mīlām | |||||
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | mīlu | mīliem | mīlu | mīlām | |||||
| locative (lokatīvs) | mīlā | mīlos | mīlā | mīlās | |||||
| vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
References
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “mielas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 316
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