pienas

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *poyHnos, *peyHnos. Cognate with Latvian piens (“milk”), Sanskrit पयस् (páyas, “milk”), Persian پینو‎ (pînû, “butter-milk”). Related to dialectal Samogitian pýti (“to start to give milk”) (< Proto-Indo-European zero-grade *piH-).

Noun

píenas m (plural píenai) stress pattern 1

  1. milk

Declension

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