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Latvian
Numeral
vienas
- inflection of viens:
- genitive singular feminine
- nominative/accusative plural feminine
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *āiˀnas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos. Baltic cognates include Latvian viêns, Latgalian vīns, Old Prussian ains. Indo-European cognates include German eins, Latin ūnus, Russian оди́н (odín), Polish jeden.
The initial v- is typical for East-Baltic cognates and plausibly comes from an undetermined particle; various theories suggest Lithuanian *visų- (“all”) (genitive plural) or Baltic *ve / *vi- (“particularly”), from Proto-Indo-European *wi- (“apart, separately”).
Pronunciation
Numeral
víenas (feminine vienà)
- one
Declension
References
- ^ Mažiulis, Vytautas (2004) “ains ‘(some)one’”, in Palmaitis, Letas, transl., Prūsų kalbos istorinė gramatika [Historical Grammar of Old Prussian], Vilnus: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, →ISBN, page 77
- ^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “vienas”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1544