# daina
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dain, from Late Latin dāmus, a masculine variant of Latin dāma (“fallow deer, buck, doe”). Originally masculine in Old Catalan, daine shifted to daina under the influence of words like cabra (“goat”), ovella (“sheep”), etc. via the plural form daines.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈdaj.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈdaj.na]

### Noun

daina f (plural daines)
* fallow deer

### Further reading

* “daina” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Cimbrian
### Determiner

daina
* feminine of dain

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dái.nàː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [déi.nàː]

### Verb

dainā̀ (grade 1)
* to quit doing, to cease

## Latvian
### Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dainā (compare Lithuanian daina), from *deî- (“to sing, dance”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyh₁- (“move swiftly”) (compare Old Irish dían (“fast”), Ancient Greek δίω (díō, “I run away, flee”), Sanskrit दीयति (dīyati, “he soars”)). Cf. also Romanian doină.

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### Noun

daina f (4th declension)
* (music) Latvian folksong
    Hypernym: tautasdziesma

#### Declension
## Lithuanian
### Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dainā (compare Latvian daĩn̨a), from *deî- (“to sing, dance”) (compare Latvian diêt), probably from Proto-Indo-European *deyh₁- (“move swiftly”) (compare Old Irish dían (“fast”), Ancient Greek δίω (díō, “I run away, flee”), Sanskrit दीयति (dīyati, “he soars”)). Also, compare perhaps Romanian doină (“a type of emotional Romanian folk song”).

### Pronunciation

* (dainà) IPA: [d̪ɐɪ̯ˑˈn̪ɐ]
* (daĩna) IPA: [ˈd̪ɐɪ̯ˑn̪ɐ]

### Noun

dainà f (plural daĩnos) stress pattern 4
* (music) song
    liaudies dainos - folksongs
    dainą dainuoti - to sing a song

#### Derived terms

* (nouns) dainininkas m/dainininkė f, dainius m/dainė f
* (verb) dainuoti

### References

* ↑ Derksen, Rick (2015) “daina”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 112
* ↑ Derksen, Rick (2015) “diet”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 532
* ↑ “daina” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
* ↑ “dainuoti” in Balčikonis, op. cit.

## Sudovian
### Etymology

* From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dainā, from *deî- (“to sing, dance”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyh₁- (“move swiftly”).
* Compare Lithuanian dainà, Latvian daĩņa (possible Lithuanism), however Old Prussian grīmikan (“song”).

### Noun

daina
* song
** “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 135, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):piosienka [piosenka] — dainapiosienka [piosenka] — song

#### Related terms

* dainid (“to sing”)

### References

* ↑ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 71: “daina ‘dainelė, l. piosienka’ 135.”
* ↑ “dainà” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. daina sf. ‘Liedchen’; dainid vb. ‘singen’”.