"meita" meaning in Latvian

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Noun

IPA: [mɛ̂jta] Audio: lv-riga-meita.ogg
Etymology: Traditionally, this word is considered borrowed from Middle Low German meid (“female servant”) (or from Middle High German meyt, meyde, or Middle Dutch meit), which replaced an older Proto-Indo-European word, probably *dukte, cognate with Lithuanian duktė̃, Old Prussian duckti, Russian дочь (doč’), German Tochter, English daughter (< Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr). It has, however, been pointed out that (a) the meaning “daughter” is older (“servant” is attested only from the 19th century), which is the opposite of what should happen if it were a borrowing from Germanic; (b) the broken intonation is not usual in borrowings from Germanic; and (c) the presumed original word *dukte has left no trace in place names, dialectal forms, etc. On account of that, some researchers believe that meita is not a borrowing, but actually the original word for “daughter” in Latvian, i.e. Latvian did not derive “daughter” from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr (like Latin, which has fīlia). A possible source would be Proto-Indo-European *mēy- (“soft, tender, dear”), with an extra t; meita would have originally been the feminine form of the resulting adjective *meits (“tender, dear, loved”). Another possibility would be the same stem as mīt (“to change”): the original meaning would have been “changing (status, via marriage)” > “young woman about to get married” > “unmarried young woman; daughter.” Etymology templates: {{bor|lv|gml|meid||female servant}} Middle Low German meid (“female servant”), {{cog|gmh|meyt}} Middle High German meyt, {{m|gmh|meyde}} meyde, {{cog|dum|meit}} Middle Dutch meit, {{cog|ine-pro|-}} Proto-Indo-European, {{m|lv|*dukte}} *dukte, {{cog|lt|duktė|duktė̃}} Lithuanian duktė̃, {{cog|prg|duckti}} Old Prussian duckti, {{cog|ru|-}} Russian, {{m|prg|дочь|tr=doč’}} дочь (doč’), {{cog|de|Tochter}} German Tochter, {{cog|en|daughter}} English daughter, {{cog|ine-pro|*dʰugh₂tḗr}} Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr, {{m|lv|*dukte}} *dukte, {{m|lv|meita}} meita, {{cog|ine-pro|*dʰugh₂tḗr}} Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr, {{cog|la|-}} Latin, {{m|lv|filia|fīlia}} fīlia, {{der|lv|ine-pro|*mēy-||soft, tender, dear}} Proto-Indo-European *mēy- (“soft, tender, dear”), {{m|lv|meita}} meita, {{m|lv|*meits||tender, dear, loved}} *meits (“tender, dear, loved”), {{m|lv|mīt||to change}} mīt (“to change”) Head templates: {{head|lv|noun|g=f|g2=|head=|sort=}} meita f, {{lv-noun|f|4th}} meita f (4th declension) Inflection templates: {{lv-decl-noun|meit|a|4th|drop-v=1|extrawidth=-60}}, {{lv-decl-noun-4|meit|a|4=|5=|6=|7=|8=|drop-v=1|keep-s=|x=-60}}, {{lv-decl-noun-table|meita|meitas|meitu|meitas|meitas|meitu|meitai|meitām|meitu|meitām|meitā|meitās|meit|meitas|16=|type=4th declension|x=-60}} Forms: declension-4 [table-tags], meita [nominative, singular], meitas [nominative, plural], meitu [accusative, singular], meitas [accusative, plural], meitas [genitive, singular], meitu [genitive, plural], meitai [dative, singular], meitām [dative, plural], meitu [instrumental, singular], meitām [instrumental, plural], meitā [locative, singular], meitās [locative, plural], meit [singular, vocative], meitas [plural, vocative]
  1. daughter (a female child, with respect to her parents) Tags: declension-4, feminine Categories (topical): Children
    Sense id: en-meita-lv-noun-pNJIinaO Disambiguation of Children: 28 8 30 34 Categories (other): Latvian entries with topic categories using raw markup, Latvian words with broken intonation, Old Prussian terms in nonstandard scripts Disambiguation of Latvian entries with topic categories using raw markup: 39 2 15 44 Disambiguation of Latvian words with broken intonation: 17 7 42 34 Disambiguation of Old Prussian terms in nonstandard scripts: 30 6 32 32
  2. (usually meitene) young, unmarried woman Tags: declension-4, feminine Synonyms (of "young, unmarried woman"): meitene, skuķis, skuķe
    Sense id: en-meita-lv-noun-UtRpaBgQ Disambiguation of 'of "young, unmarried woman"': 0 67 31 2
  3. female servant, usually unmarried Tags: declension-4, feminine Categories (topical): Children, Family Synonyms (of "female servant"): kalpone
    Sense id: en-meita-lv-noun-f2KoAebB Disambiguation of Children: 28 8 30 34 Disambiguation of Family: 9 0 45 46 Categories (other): Latvian entries with topic categories using raw markup, Latvian words with broken intonation, Old Prussian terms in nonstandard scripts Disambiguation of Latvian entries with topic categories using raw markup: 39 2 15 44 Disambiguation of Latvian words with broken intonation: 17 7 42 34 Disambiguation of Old Prussian terms in nonstandard scripts: 30 6 32 32 Disambiguation of 'of "female servant"': 27 0 70 2
  4. (poetic) daughter (a member of a people, ethnic group, etc.) Tags: declension-4, feminine, poetic Categories (topical): Children, Family
    Sense id: en-meita-lv-noun-7vWiB9t5 Disambiguation of Children: 28 8 30 34 Disambiguation of Family: 9 0 45 46 Categories (other): Latvian entries with incorrect language header, Latvian entries with topic categories using raw markup, Latvian etymologies from LEV, Latvian words with broken intonation, Old Prussian terms in nonstandard scripts Disambiguation of Latvian entries with incorrect language header: 38 1 9 53 Disambiguation of Latvian entries with topic categories using raw markup: 39 2 15 44 Disambiguation of Latvian etymologies from LEV: 24 3 14 60 Disambiguation of Latvian words with broken intonation: 17 7 42 34 Disambiguation of Old Prussian terms in nonstandard scripts: 30 6 32 32
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (of "girl"): meitenīte Derived forms: brāļameita (english: fraternal niece), ielasmeita (english: prostitute), meitene, meitenīte
Disambiguation of 'of "girl"': 0 0 100 0

Inflected forms

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"daughter\"”",
      "word": "dēls"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"girl\"”",
      "word": "zēns"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"girl\"”",
      "word": "zeņķis"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"girl\"”",
      "word": "puika"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"girl\"”",
      "word": "puisis"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"girl\"”",
      "word": "puisēns"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"girl\"”",
      "word": "puisītis"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"female servant\"”",
      "word": "puisis"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “of \"female servant\"”",
      "word": "kalps"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "english": "fraternal niece",
      "word": "brāļameita"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "english": "prostitute",
      "word": "ielasmeita"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "meitene"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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    }
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        "2": "gml",
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        "4": "",
        "5": "female servant"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Low German meid (“female servant”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
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      },
      "expansion": "Middle High German meyt",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
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        "1": "gmh",
        "2": "meyde"
      },
      "expansion": "meyde",
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    {
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        "1": "dum",
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      },
      "expansion": "Middle Dutch meit",
      "name": "cog"
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        "2": "-"
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      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European",
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        "2": "*dukte"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "duktė",
        "3": "duktė̃"
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      "name": "cog"
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      "args": {
        "1": "prg",
        "2": "duckti"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Prussian duckti",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "-"
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      "expansion": "Russian",
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      "args": {
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        "2": "дочь",
        "tr": "doč’"
      },
      "expansion": "дочь (doč’)",
      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Tochter"
      },
      "expansion": "German Tochter",
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "daughter"
      },
      "expansion": "English daughter",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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        "1": "ine-pro",
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      },
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      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "*dukte"
      },
      "expansion": "*dukte",
      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "meita"
      },
      "expansion": "meita",
      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
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      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "filia",
        "3": "fīlia"
      },
      "expansion": "fīlia",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*mēy-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "soft, tender, dear"
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      "name": "der"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "meita"
      },
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      "name": "m"
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      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "*meits",
        "3": "",
        "4": "tender, dear, loved"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "mīt",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to change"
      },
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        "table-tags"
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    },
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        "inflection-template"
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        "singular"
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
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        "accusative",
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        "singular"
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        "genitive",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "meitai",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meitām",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meitu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meitām",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meitā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meitās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meit",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "meitas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
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        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
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    },
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      },
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      },
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        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "drop-v": "1",
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        "x": "-60"
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        "14": "meitas",
        "16": "",
        "2": "meitas",
        "3": "meitu",
        "4": "meitas",
        "5": "meitas",
        "6": "meitu",
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      },
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  ],
  "lang": "Latvian",
  "lang_code": "lv",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latvian entries with topic categories using raw markup",
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            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
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        {
          "_dis": "17 7 42 34",
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          "_dis": "30 6 32 32",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old Prussian terms in nonstandard scripts",
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            "Terms in nonstandard scripts",
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            "People",
            "Human",
            "Time",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        {
          "english": "mother and daughter",
          "text": "māte un meita",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "the oldest, the youngest daughter",
          "text": "vecākā, jaunākā meita",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "the only daughter",
          "text": "vienīgā meita",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "sister's daughter (= niece)",
          "text": "māsas meita",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "the mother had two sons and three daughters",
          "text": "mātei bija divi dēli un trīs meitas",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "onkulim ir meita, agronome Kurzemē ― uncle has a daughter, an agronomist in Courland",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "daughter (a female child, with respect to her parents)"
      ],
      "id": "en-meita-lv-noun-pNJIinaO",
      "links": [
        [
          "daughter",
          "daughter"
        ],
        [
          "female",
          "female#English"
        ],
        [
          "child",
          "child#English"
        ],
        [
          "respect",
          "respect#English"
        ],
        [
          "parent",
          "parent#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-4",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
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        {
          "english": "young woman's days (i.e., before marriage)",
          "text": "meitas dienas",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "maiden (lit. young woman's) name",
          "text": "meitas uzvārds",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "forest girls (= mythological beings)",
          "text": "meža meitas",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "young woman hunter (a man who uses every chance to start a love affair)",
          "text": "meitu mednieks",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "yes, she, my mother, was a beautiful young woman, and many young men wanted her as their wife",
          "text": "jā, viņa, mana māte, bijusi daiļa meita, un daudzi jaunekļi viņu kārojuši sev par sievu",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "“talk now, girl,” Pakalns answered lively; “they will hear you further”",
          "text": "“parunā gan, meit”, Pakalns dzīvi atsaucās; “tev viņi vairāk klausīs”",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "young, unmarried woman"
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          "usually"
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          "meitene",
          "meitene#Latvian"
        ],
        [
          "young",
          "young"
        ],
        [
          "unmarried",
          "unmarried"
        ],
        [
          "woman",
          "woman"
        ]
      ],
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      ],
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          "word": "meitene"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 67 31 2",
          "sense": "of \"young, unmarried woman\"",
          "word": "skuķis"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 67 31 2",
          "sense": "of \"young, unmarried woman\"",
          "word": "skuķe"
        }
      ],
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        "feminine"
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          "name": "Children",
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            "Human",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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            "Fundamental"
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        {
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        {
          "english": "the lady wanted, in the same trip, to come see and hear the new servants",
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    "Latvian nouns",
    "Latvian terms borrowed from Middle Low German",
    "Latvian terms derived from Middle Low German",
    "Latvian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latvian terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Latvian terms with audio links",
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    {
      "english": "fraternal niece",
      "word": "brāļameita"
    },
    {
      "english": "prostitute",
      "word": "ielasmeita"
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    {
      "word": "meitene"
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      "word": "meitenīte"
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      "name": "der"
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  "etymology_text": "Traditionally, this word is considered borrowed from Middle Low German meid (“female servant”) (or from Middle High German meyt, meyde, or Middle Dutch meit), which replaced an older Proto-Indo-European word, probably *dukte, cognate with Lithuanian duktė̃, Old Prussian duckti, Russian дочь (doč’), German Tochter, English daughter (< Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr). It has, however, been pointed out that (a) the meaning “daughter” is older (“servant” is attested only from the 19th century), which is the opposite of what should happen if it were a borrowing from Germanic; (b) the broken intonation is not usual in borrowings from Germanic; and (c) the presumed original word *dukte has left no trace in place names, dialectal forms, etc. On account of that, some researchers believe that meita is not a borrowing, but actually the original word for “daughter” in Latvian, i.e. Latvian did not derive “daughter” from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr (like Latin, which has fīlia). A possible source would be Proto-Indo-European *mēy- (“soft, tender, dear”), with an extra t; meita would have originally been the feminine form of the resulting adjective *meits (“tender, dear, loved”). Another possibility would be the same stem as mīt (“to change”): the original meaning would have been “changing (status, via marriage)” > “young woman about to get married” > “unmarried young woman; daughter.”",
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          "text": "māte un meita",
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          "english": "the oldest, the youngest daughter",
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        },
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          "english": "the only daughter",
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        {
          "english": "sister's daughter (= niece)",
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        {
          "english": "the mother had two sons and three daughters",
          "text": "mātei bija divi dēli un trīs meitas",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "onkulim ir meita, agronome Kurzemē ― uncle has a daughter, an agronomist in Courland",
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        }
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          "english": "young woman's days (i.e., before marriage)",
          "text": "meitas dienas",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "maiden (lit. young woman's) name",
          "text": "meitas uzvārds",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "forest girls (= mythological beings)",
          "text": "meža meitas",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "young woman hunter (a man who uses every chance to start a love affair)",
          "text": "meitu mednieks",
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        },
        {
          "english": "yes, she, my mother, was a beautiful young woman, and many young men wanted her as their wife",
          "text": "jā, viņa, mana māte, bijusi daiļa meita, un daudzi jaunekļi viņu kārojuši sev par sievu",
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        },
        {
          "english": "“talk now, girl,” Pakalns answered lively; “they will hear you further”",
          "text": "“parunā gan, meit”, Pakalns dzīvi atsaucās; “tev viņi vairāk klausīs”",
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          "text": "muižas meita",
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        {
          "english": "summer girl (= hired for the summer)",
          "text": "vasaras meita",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "room maid",
          "text": "istabas meita",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "the lady wanted, in the same trip, to come see and hear the new servants",
          "text": "saimniece pie tā paša brauciena gribēja apraudzīties un apklausīties pēc jaunas meitas",
          "type": "example"
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          "servant"
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          "unmarried"
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        "feminine"
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          "english": "the sons and daughters of various nations",
          "text": "dažādu tautu dēli un meitas",
          "type": "example"
        }
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          "poetic",
          "poetic"
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          "daughter"
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          "member"
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          "people"
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          "ethnic",
          "ethnic"
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          "group"
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      "sense": "of \"girl\"",
      "word": "meitenīte"
    },
    {
      "sense": "of \"young, unmarried woman\"",
      "word": "meitene"
    },
    {
      "sense": "of \"young, unmarried woman\"",
      "word": "skuķis"
    },
    {
      "sense": "of \"young, unmarried woman\"",
      "word": "skuķe"
    },
    {
      "sense": "of \"female servant\"",
      "word": "kalpone"
    }
  ],
  "word": "meita"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latvian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.