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miegs

miegs

Latvian

Miegs

Noun

miegs m (1st declension)

  1. sleep (the act or state of sleeping, of being asleep)
    salds, dziļš miegs‎ ― sweet, deep sleep
    nakts, rīta miegs‎ ― night, morning sleep
    hipnotiskais miegs‎ ― hypnotic sleep
    miega zāles‎ ― sleep medicine
    miega līdzeklis‎ ― sleeping pills
    miega traucējumi‎ ― sleep disorders
    iegrimt miegā‎ ― to fall into sleep
    runāt miegā‎ ― to talk in one's sleep
    aizdzīt miegu‎ ― to drive sleep away
    tonakt man ilgi nenāca miegs‎ ― that night I couldn't fall asleep (lit. sleep didn't come to me) for a long time

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Related terms

  • migt, aizmigt

See also

References

  1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “miegs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *meyg- (Eastern Baltic *mieg-), from Proto-Indo-European *meygʰ-, from the stem *mei- ‎(“to press, to hit”) with an extra -g(ʰ) (whence also Latvian miegt “to press, to squeeze”). The original meaning was thus “closing, pressing together” (the eyelids), from which “sleep”. Cognates include Lithuanian miẽgas, miegóti ‎(“to sleep”), Old Prussian enmigguns ‎(“asleep”), meicte ‎(“to sleep”), maiggun ‎(“sleep (accusative)”), Old Church Slavonic помигати ‎(pomigati, “to blink, to wink”), Russian мигать ‎(migat’), мжить ‎(mžit’, “to doze off, to take a nap”), Ukrainian мигати ‎(myháty, “to blink, to wink”), Bulgarian мигам ‎(mígam), Czech mihati, Polish migać.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mìɛks]

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