"sniegs" meaning in Latvian

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Noun

IPA: [snìɛks] Audio: Lv-sniegs.ogg
Etymology: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *snáigas (> Latvian *snaigs, which, under the influence of forms of the verb snigt (“to snow”), became sniegs; compare Lithuanian snaĩgė (“snowflake”), still with the original ai), from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos. Etymology templates: {{inh|lv|ine-bsl-pro|*snáigas}} Proto-Balto-Slavic *snáigas, {{noncog|lv|-}} Latvian, {{m|lv|snigt||to snow}} snigt (“to snow”), {{m|lv|sniegs}} sniegs, {{cog|lt|snaigė|snaĩgė|snowflake}} Lithuanian snaĩgė (“snowflake”), {{inh|lv|ine-pro|*snóygʷʰos}} Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos Head templates: {{head|lv|noun|g=m|g2=|head=|sort=}} sniegs m, {{lv-noun|m|1st}} sniegs m (1st declension) Inflection templates: {{lv-decl-noun|snieg|s|1st|extrawidth=-60}}, {{lv-decl-noun-1|snieg|s|4=|5=|6=|7=|8=|drop-v=|keep-s=|x=-60}}, {{lv-decl-noun-table|sniegs|sniegi|sniegu|sniegus|sniega|sniegu|sniegam|sniegiem|sniegu|sniegiem|sniegā|sniegos|snieg|sniegi|type=1st declension|x=-60}} Forms: declension-1 [table-tags], sniegs [nominative, singular], sniegi [nominative, plural], sniegu [accusative, singular], sniegus [accusative, plural], sniega [genitive, singular], sniegu [genitive, plural], sniegam [dative, singular], sniegiem [dative, plural], sniegu [instrumental, singular], sniegiem [instrumental, plural], sniegā [locative, singular], sniegos [locative, plural], snieg [singular, vocative], sniegi [plural, vocative]
  1. snow (frozen water that falls as precipitation) Wikipedia link: lv:sniegs Tags: declension-1, masculine Categories (topical): Snow, Weather, Winter Derived forms: sniega arkls, sniegavīrs, sniega vīrs, sniegbalts, sniegputenis Related terms: snigt

Inflected forms

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}

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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.