maiss

From Proto-Baltic *maiš-, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *maišás, from Proto-Indo-European *moysós, *moi-sḱo- (“sheep; skin”).

Cognates include Lithuanian maĩšas (“sack”), Old Prussian moasis (mōsis, “bellows”) (from *mōi- from *mai-), Old Church Slavonic мѣхъ (měxŭ, “bag”), Russian мех (mex, “fur, bellows”), Czech měch (“sack, bellows”), Polish miech (“sack, bellows”), Old Norse meiss (“basket”), Old High German meisa (“pannier”), Middle Low German meise (“keg, barrel”), Sanskrit मेष (meṣa, “ram, sheep; sheepskin, fur”).^[1]

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maiss m (1st declension)

1. sack, bag (container made of cloth, plastic, paper, etc. for transportation or storage)

   audekla, papīra maiss ― cloth, paper sack

   tukšs, pilns, caurs mais ― empty, full, leaky sack

   iebērt maisā miltus ― to pour flour into a sack

   miltu, cukura maisi ― flour, sugar sacks

   sabērt pagrabā desmit maisu kartupeļu ― to pour, store ten sacks of potatoes in the basement

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