meitene

See also: meitenē

Latvian

From meita (“daughter, girl”) ‎ -ene. First attested in 18th-century sources, at first only as “little girl,” later on also as “young woman.”^[1]

meitene f (5th declension)

girl (female child, up to approximately 18 years of age)
čakla meitene ― diligent girl

meiteņu skola ― girls' school

meiteņu koris ― girls' choir

meitene ar bizītēm ― a girl with braids

meiteņu apģērbi ― girls' clothes

rotaļās gāja zēni un meitenes ― the boys and the girls went to play

dūšīga sieva ar trim meitenēm, vecumā no desmit līdz četrpadsmit gadiem ― a robust woman with three girls, aged from ten to fourteen years
young woman
sarīkojumu organizēja ceha meitenes ― the girls of the workshop organized the event

Edīte bija jauna meitene, ar mundru gaitu un vēl bērnišķīgu seju ― Edīte was a young woman with a lively gait and a still child-like face
girl, girlfriend (a young woman in which a man is romantically interested)
katram puisim bija vai nu sieva, vai sava meitene ― every young man had either a wife or a girl(friend)

Tiju Galotni visvairāk interesēja tas, vai Alvils Dzeguze atnāks viens vai kopā ar savu meiteni ― Tija Galotne was interested above all in whether Alvils Dzeguse came back alone, or with his girl(friend)

Declension of meitene (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	meitene	meitenes
accusative (akuzatīvs)	meiteni	meitenes
genitive (ģenitīvs)	meitenes	meiteņu
dative (datīvs)	meitenei	meitenēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	meiteni	meitenēm
locative (lokatīvs)	meitenē	meitenēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	meitene	meitenes

^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “meita”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎^[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN