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Lithuanian
Noun
miẽsto
- genitive singular of miẽstas
Old Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *město. Doublet of město.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈmi̯ɛːsto/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈmiːsto/
Noun
miesto n
- place, territory, area
- place (part of a whole)
- place (passage of a text)
- (with an ordinal number) place (position in series)
- place, position, post
- place (correct or proper place)
- aim, goal, end
Declension
Descendants
References
Old Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /mjɛstɔ/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /mjɛstɔ/
Noun
miesto n
- Alternative form of miasto
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
miesto n (Cyrillic spelling миесто)
- Obsolete spelling of mjesto.
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *město. Cognates include Czech místo.
Pronunciation
Noun
miesto n
- location
- place
Declension
Preposition
miesto + genitive
- instead of
Conjunction
miesto aby
- rather than
Derived terms
Further reading
- “miesto”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024