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viens

Pronunciation: [ˈviɛ̯̂ns]

“viens” is a Latvian word. Its 13 meanings in English:

numeral

  1. one (the cipher, the cardinal number one)
  2. one (an amount equal to one)
  3. one o'clock (a moment in time; one hour after midnight, or after noon)
  4. one, unit (the digit in the last position in a number)
  5. one (person, thing, event, action)
  6. one, a certain (marking indefiniteness)
  7. the same (indicating identity, sameness)
  8. alone, by oneself, without the help of others
  9. one or other, some, a few (people, objects, events)
  10. each other, one another (indicating mutual relations, influence)
  11. one of the... (member of a certain group)
  12. one, in one (indicating continuity, lack of interruption)
  13. one, one really... (used to intensify the meaning)

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *eynos (with ey > ie metathesis; note that some 17th-century Kurzeme and Zemgale dialects still had some forms with ey), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *aiˀnas, from a Proto-Indo-European *éyno-, *éynos, from *éy, *óy (“he, it”) (non-Baltic cognates derive from o-grade *óy; compare Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“one”)) with a suffix *-nos, which originally had an adjectival meaning.…

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