vienas

See also: vienās

Latvian

Numeral

vienas

inflection of viens:
1. genitive singular feminine
2. nominative/accusative plural feminine

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *aiˀnas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos. Baltic cognates include Latvian viêns, Latgalian vīns, Old Prussian ains. Indo-European cognates include German eins, Latin ūnus, Russian оди́н (odín), Polish jeden.

The initial v- is typical for East-Baltic cognates and plausibly comes from an undetermined particle; various theories suggest Lithuanian *visų- (“all”) (genitive plural)^[1] or Baltic *ve / *vi- (“particularly”), from Proto-Indo-European *wi- (“apart, separately”).^[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈvîə̯.n̪ɐs̪]

Numeral

**Lithuanian cardinal numbers**
< 0	1	2 >
Cardinal : vienas Ordinal : pirmas

víenas (feminine vienà)

one

Declension

Declension of vienas

	masculine	feminine
nominative	víenas	vienà
genitive	víeno	vienõs
dative	vienám	víenai
accusative	víeną	víeną
instrumental	víenu	víena
locative	vienamè	vienojè

Forms of vienas

	masculine	feminine
quantitative	vienas	viena
plural	vieneri	vienerios
collective	vienetas	vieneta
ordinal	pirmas	pirma

References

^ Mažiulis, Vytautas (2004) “ains ‘(some)one’”, in Palmaitis, Letas, transl., Prūsų kalbos istorinė gramatika [Historical Grammar of Old Prussian], Vilnus: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, →ISBN, page 77
^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “vienas”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1544

[1] Mažiulis, Vytautas (2004) “ains ‘(some)one’”, in Palmaitis, Letas, transl., Prūsų kalbos istorinė gramatika [Historical Grammar of Old Prussian], Vilnus: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, →ISBN, page 77

[2] Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “vienas”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1544

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