daina

Borrowed from Middle French dain, from Late Latin dāmus, a masculine variant of Latin dāma (“fallow deer, buck, doe”). Originally masculine in Old Catalan, daine shifted to daina under the influence of words like cabra (“goat”), ovella (“sheep”), etc. via the plural form daines.

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daina f (plural daines)

1. fallow deer

• “daina” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

daina

1. feminine of dain

• IPA^(key): /dái.nàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

dainā̀ (grade 1)

1. to quit doing, to cease

Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:

daina

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dainā (compare Lithuanian daina), from *deî- (“to sing, dance”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyh₁- (“move swiftly”) (compare Old Irish dían (“fast”), Ancient Greek δίω (díō, “I run away, flee”), Sanskrit दीयति (dīyati, “he soars”)). Cf. also Romanian doină.

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daina f (4th declension)

1. (music) Latvian folksong

   Hypernym: tautasdziesma

Lithuanian Wikipedia has an article on:

daina

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dainā (compare Latvian daĩn̨a),^[1] from *deî- (“to sing, dance”) (compare Latvian diêt), probably from Proto-Indo-European *deyh₁- (“move swiftly”) (compare Old Irish dían (“fast”), Ancient Greek δίω (díō, “I run away, flee”), Sanskrit दीयति (dīyati, “he soars”)).^[2] Also, compare perhaps Romanian doină (“a type of emotional Romanian folk song”).

• (dainà) IPA^(key):
• (daĩna) IPA^(key):

dainà f (plural daĩnos) stress pattern 4 ^[3]

1. (music) song

   liaudies dainos - folksongs

   dainą dainuoti^[4] - to sing a song

• (nouns) dainininkas m/dainininkė f, dainius m/dainė f
• (verb) dainuoti

• From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dainā, from *deî- (“to sing, dance”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyh₁- (“move swiftly”).
• Compare Lithuanian dainà, Latvian daĩņa (possible Lithuanism), however Old Prussian grīmikan (“song”).^[1][2]

daina

1. song
   • “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 135, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):

     piosienka [piosenka] — daina

     piosienka — song

• dainid (“to sing”)