siens

siens

1. Obsolete spelling of scion.

• I-ness, sines, Nisse, sensi, snies, Neiss, seins, Sensi, SINEs, ensis

• IPA^(key): /sjɛ̃/

siens

1. (archaic) masculine plural of sien

• les siens (“his, hers”)

• seins

 

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *šainan, *šeinan, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoynom (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoy-no- (“hay”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“color, usually gray”)). Cognates include Lithuanian šiẽnas (“hay”) (regionally siẽnas), Old Church Slavonic сѣно (sěno, “hay”) (Russian се́но (séno), Ukrainian сі́но (síno), Bulgarian сено́ (senó), Czech seno, Polish siano), and possibly Ancient Greek κοινά (koiná, “cattle food”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [sìens]

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siens m (1st declension)

1. hay (dried grass used as animal fodder)

   siena guba, stirpa, kaudze ― hay stack

   siena grābeklis, dakšas ― hay rake, fork

   siena pļava ― hay meadow

   siena laiks ― hay time (i.e., time to mow hay)

   pļaut, grābt sienu ― to mow hay

• siena drudzis
• siena mēnesis

• gulta