zeme
Latvian
noun
Definitions
- ground, land, mainland geographical, ethnic
- earth, soil, ground substance
- country, nation
- (usually) Earth third planet in the Solar System
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źemē (land, ground) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm (earth, land).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰéǵʰōm
Gloss
earth, land
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
土, 地
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antichthon English
- chthonic English
- humus English
- humus Finnish
- humilis Latin
- humo Latin
- humus Latin
- umus Italian
- chtonisch Dutch, Flemish
- humus Dutch, Flemish
- anthume French
- camion French
- Новая Земля Russian
- гумус Russian
- земельный Russian
- землевладелец Russian
- землепользование Russian
- землепроходец Russian
- землеройка Russian
- землетрясение Russian
- земля́ Russian
- земляк Russian
- земляника Russian
- земляной Russian
- земной Russian
- земский Russian
- земство Russian
- приземистый Russian
- приземлиться Russian
- чужеземец Russian
- alóctono Spanish, Castilian
- trashumancia Spanish, Castilian
- trashumar Spanish, Castilian
- χαμᾶζε Ancient Greek
- χθόνιος Ancient Greek
- χθών Ancient Greek
- ἐνοσίχθων Ancient Greek
- ἐπιχθόνιος Ancient Greek
- Ἐριχθόνιος Ancient Greek
- *dʰéǵʰōm Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰmṓ Proto-Indo-European
- humo Portuguese
- transumância Portuguese
- Naziemiec Polish
- Ziemianin Polish
- Ziemianka Polish
- Ziemianowicz Polish
- Ziemiańczyk Polish
- Ziemiec Polish
- cudzoziemiec Polish
- humus Polish
- nadziemny Polish
- podziemie Polish
- podziemny Polish
- uziemiać Polish
- uziemić Polish
- ziemia Polish
- ziemianin Polish
- ziemianka Polish
- ziemisty Polish
- ziemny Polish
- क्ष Sanskrit
- क्षम् Sanskrit
- húmas Irish
- *zemľa Proto-Slavic
- humus Czech
- humus Serbo-Croatian
- хумус Serbo-Croatian
- ज़मीन Hindi
- հումուս Armenian
- زمین Persian
- χούμος Greek (modern)
- Taizeme Latvian
- Vidzeme Latvian
- en Latvian
- gen.] Latvian
- genitive Latvian
- taizemiete Latvian
- taizemietis Latvian
- taizemisks Latvian
- tajs Latvian
- taju Latvian
- tēvu Latvian
- tēvzeme Latvian
- vidus Latvian
- zemene Latvian
- zemniece Latvian
- zemnieks Latvian
- zems Latvian
- zemup Latvian
- ցամաք Old Armenian
- zemin Turkish
- хумус Bulgarian
- ჰუმუსი Georgian
- *soomi Proto-Finnic
- *gdū Proto-Celtic
- જમીન Gujarati
- *ȷ́žʰā́s Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *ȷ́ʰžā́s Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Sámi Northern Sami
- *homos Proto-Italic
- जमीन Marathi
- žemuogė Lithuanian
- žemynas Lithuanian
- žemė Lithuanian
- žẽmė Lithuanian
- *gẓʰā́s Proto-Indo-Aryan
- জমি Bengali
- জমিন Bengali
- zmyk' Middle Persian
- zevî Northern Kurdish
- *źemē Proto-Balto-Slavic
- जमीन Bhojpuri
- земля Rusyn
- *tken Proto-Tocharian
- zeme Latgalian
- zemē Old Prussian
- *déǵm̥ Proto-Anatolian
- Σεμ Thracian