miesa

From *mēnsā́ˀ, the plural of Proto-Balto-Slavic *mḗns, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms.

This stem has variants (*mē- > *mei-; cf. maiss) and may have originally been the name of some animal species (cf. *moysós (“sheep”), and secondarily also the source of words for its meat, skin, or limbs. Semantically, miesa became restricted to “flesh” while its synonym gaļa (q.v.) became “meat,” but its original wider meaning can still be seen in the derived term miesnieks (“butcher”).^[1]

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miesa f (4th declension)

1. (anatomy) flesh, muscle and fat tissue of a human or animal body

   lode skārusi miesu ― the bullet hit the flesh

   stingra, raupja miesa ― firm, rough flesh

   pieņemties miesās ― to increase in the flesh (= to become fatter)

   kristies miesās ― to fall in the flesh (= to become thinner)

   mātes miesās ― in the mother's womb (lit. flesh, i.e., not yet born)

   miesas uzbūve ― bodily structure

   miesas krāsa ― flesh color (pale pink)

   miesas bojājums ― bodily injury

   miesas kārība, miesaskārība ― lust of the flesh (= sexual desire)

• miesīgs
• miesnieks, miesniece

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Latin mēnsa.

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• Brewer, Forrest, Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, pages 64, 142