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Latvian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *swápnas, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos.
Noun
sapnis m (2nd declension)[1]
- dream (images seen during sleep)
- sapņa saturs ― dream content
- sapņa sižets ― dream story, plot
- redzēt sapni ― to have (lit. see) a dream
- dream (a desire which one wishes to see come true)
- sapnis par laimi ― dream of happiness
- pārvērst sapni par īstenību ― to turn a dream into reality
- jaunības sapņi ― youthful dreams
- nepiepildāms sapnis ― an impossible, unfulfillable dream
Declension
Declension of sapnis (2nd declension)
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References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “sapnas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 389: “*su(o)pno-”