Pizā

See also: piza and Piza

Latvian

Proper noun

Pizā

  1. 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

  1. Miķeļtornis (a village in Courland, Latvia)

Declension

Declension of Pizā (39)
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

  1. ^ Kersti Boiko, Ziemeļkurzemes piekrastes lībiešu ciemu vietvārdi in Kersti Boiko's Lībieši – rakstu krājums, pages 219-220