saime

English

Noun

saime

1. Alternative form of seim.

Estonian

Verb

saime

1. first-person plural past indicative of saama

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *śeimā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-meh₂ (“settlement, village; family”), from the root *tḱey- (“to lie down; to settle, inhabit”). Cognate to Lithuanian šeima (“family”), Russian семья (semʹja), English home. Compare kaimas.

Noun

saime f (5th declension)

1. family
2. household
3. servants
4. domestics

Declension

Declension of saime (5th)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative	saime	saimes
genitive	saimes	saimju
dative	saimei	saimēm
accusative	saimi	saimes
instrumental	saimi	saimēm
locative	saimē	saimēs
vocative	saime	saimes

Related terms

• cilts
• dzimta
• ģimene
• ļaudis
• pulciņš
• pulks
• saimniecība

Old French

Etymology

From saim / saïm / sain, from Latin sagīna.

Noun

saime oblique singular, f (oblique plural saimes, nominative singular saime, nominative plural saimes)

1. fat, cream