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dziļa ziema ― deep winter (i.e., with a lot of snow)
ziemas saulgrieži ― winter solstice
pēc garās ziemas, kas bija sākusies novembrī un vēl aprīlī negribēja aiziet, atnāca pavasaris, jo nav tādas ziemas, kurai reiz nesekotu pavasaris ― after a long winter that had started in November and in April still didn't want to go, came spring, because there is no such thing as winter which is not followed by spring
ziemas dārzs ― winter garden (a room for plants in the house)
ziemas guļa ― hibernation (lit. winter sleep)
ziemas sports ― winter sports
ziemas olimpiskās spēles ― winter olympic games
ziemas mētelis ― winter coat
ziemas riepas ― winter tires (for driving on snow or ice)
ziemas kvieši ― winter wheat (sown in autumn, mature the next year)
ziemas āboli ― winter apples (those that mature in autumn)
apaudzis biezu ziemas spalvu, suns izskatījās lielāks nekā toreiz, kad mežā to atstāja likteņā ziņā ― having grown a thick winter fur, the dog looked bigger than the time when he was left to his fate in the forest
^ Kim, Ronald (2018) “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook, Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN
