vienas

See also: vienās

Latvian

Numeral

vienas

  1. inflection of viens:
    1. genitive singular feminine
    2. nominative/accusative plural feminine

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *aiˀnas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos. Baltic cognates include Latvian viêns, Latgalian vīns, Old Prussian ains. Indo-European cognates include German eins, Latin ūnus, Russian оди́н (odín), Polish jeden.

The initial v- is typical for East-Baltic cognates and plausibly comes from an undetermined particle; various theories suggest Lithuanian *visų- (“all”) (genitive plural)[1] or Baltic *ve / *vi- (“particularly”), from Proto-Indo-European *wi- (“apart, separately”).[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈvîə̯.n̪ɐs̪]

Numeral
Lithuanian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : vienas
    Ordinal : pirmas

víenas (feminine vienà)

  1. one

Declension
Declension of vienas
masculine feminine
nominative víenas vienà
genitive víeno vienõs
dative vienám víenai
accusative víeną víeną
instrumental víenu víena
locative vienamè vienojè
Forms of vienas
masculine feminine
quantitative vienas viena
plural vieneri vienerios
collective vienetas vieneta
ordinal pirmas pirma


References
  1. Mažiulis, Vytautas (2004) “ains ‘(some)one’”, in Palmaitis, Letas, transl., Prūsų kalbos istorinė gramatika [Historical Grammar of Old Prussian], Vilnus: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, →ISBN, page 77
  2. Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “vienas”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1544
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