[sìens]
CilmeFrom Proto-Balto-Slavic *śainan, *śeinan, 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”).
- declension-1, masculinehay (dried grass used as animal fodder)
“siena guba, stirpa, kaudze” — hay stack
“siena grābeklis, dakšas” — hay rake, fork
“siena pļava” — hay meadow
Formassiens(nominative, singular) · sieni(nominative, plural) · siena(genitive, singular) · sienu(genitive, plural) · sienam(dative, singular) · sieniem(dative, plural) · sienu(accusative, singular) · sienus(accusative, plural) · sienu(instrumental, singular) · sieniem(instrumental, plural) · sienā(locative, singular) · sienos(locative, plural) · sien(singular, vocative) · sieni(plural, vocative)