sieviete

See also: sievietē

Latvian

sieviete on Latvian Wikipedia

Sievietes

Etymology

From sieva (“wife, woman”) +‎ -iete. First attested in the 19th century, apparently coined by analogy with vīrietis (“man”) (compare an original variant sievietis) as sieva gradually shifted its basic meaning to “wife”.^[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

sieviete f (5th declension)

woman (a human being of the female sex)
sieviešu dzimte ― the female sex, gender

jauna, veca sievete ― young, old woman

neprecējusies sieviete ― unmarried woman

sieviešu koris ― women's choir

sievietes higinēa ― female higiene

sieviešu jautājumi ― women's issues

sieviešu kustība ― women's movement

Declension

Declension of sieviete (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	sieviete	sievietes
accusative (akuzatīvs)	sievieti	sievietes
genitive (ģenitīvs)	sievietes	sieviešu
dative (datīvs)	sievietei	sievietēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	sievieti	sievietēm
locative (lokatīvs)	sievietē	sievietēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	sieviete	sievietes

References

^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “sieva”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎^[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

[1] Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “sieva”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎^[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

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