Pizā
Latvian
Proper noun
Pizā
- locative singular of Piza
Livonian
Etymology
Historically Pissen (attested from 1502 as weg, den von Stanszen vnnd Piszen herkombt) – Latvian Miķeļbāka, Pizesciems (Pize) or officially Miķeļtornis, Livonian Pizā. This toponym could be of Baltic origin: compare Old Prussian Pysekaym (1384), Pisdekaym (1388), Piselauk (1419), and parallels can be found in Lithuanian toponymy as well, e.g. Pisa (river); compare also Latvian Pisiņš (lake), Pisupīte, etc. The Lithuanian linguist A. Vanagas connects all these toponyms with Latvian pisa (“a bog, marsh, swamp without a bottom where only small birches and firs grow”), pise (“very thick forest”). An Old Prussian personal name Pisz (1261) should be noted too.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pizɑː/
Proper noun
Pizā
- Miķeļtornis (a village in Courland, Latvia)
- Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA
- Pizā – Pizā – Miķeļtornis
- Miķeļtornis – Miķeļtornis – Miķeļtornis
- Pizā – Pizā – Miķeļtornis
- Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA
Declension
| singular (ikšlug) | plural (pǟgiņlug) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (nominatīv) | Pizā | – |
| genitive (genitīv) | Pizā | – |
| partitive (partitīv) | Pizzõ | – |
| dative (datīv) | Pizān | – |
| instrumental (instrumentāl) | Pizāks | – |
| illative (illatīv) | Pizzõ | – |
| inessive (inesīv) | Pizās | – |
| elative (elatīv) | Pizāst | – |
References
- ^ Kersti Boiko, Ziemeļkurzemes piekrastes lībiešu ciemu vietvārdi in Kersti Boiko's Lībieši – rakstu krājums, pages 219-220