Saeima

English Proper noun The Parliament of the Republic of Latvia Anagrams en aaeims asemia en Politics Government Latvian lv: thumb|250px|Saeimas sēžu zāle Etymology Borrowed or adapted from lv pl Sejm. Compare lt Seĩmas. Juris Alunāns claims he independently coined the word, originally lv saeims m, from the verb lv saiet to go together = lv sa- + lv iet.lv LU Raksti 2008 731 75 Jura Alunāna devums latviešu leksikogrāfijā Zuicena, Ieva & Migla, Ilga 1407-2157 http://www.lu.lv/materiali/apgads/raksti/731.pdf#page=75 PDF 2010-05-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20250708110216/https://www.lu.lv/materiali/apgads/raksti/731.pdf 8 July 2025saeima 2 141saiet:1 The prefix lv sa- is cognate to the sla-pro *sъ(n) *s- in pl sejm, but the resemblance is otherwise superficial as the verbal roots differ. Regardless, the Latvian term was highly likely to have been influenced by the Polish term, even if one wishes to regard it as a calque or phono-semantic matching instead of a pure borrowing.de https://archive.org/details/zeitschriftfursl0008maxv/page/424/mode/2up?q=saiet+saeima Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie 24000018 Ernst Fraenkel (linguist) Fraenkel, Ernst Kreuzung einheimischer und fremder Synonyma ähnlicher Lautung im Baltischen Crossing of native and foreign synonyms of similar sound in Baltic Markert & Petters Verlag Leipzig 1931 8 3–4 424755 saĩmasLinguistica Baltica 5–6 1230-3984 1996–1997 Calquing: Virtue or vice? Guild, D. G. 139 Compare the rare hyper-Lithuanized form lt sueimas introduced by Simonas Daukantas,sueimas which is derived from lt sueĩti to gather equivalent to lv saiet. Pronunciation lv lv Proper noun f 4th Saeima the Parliament of the Republic of Latvia Declension Saeim a 4th 0 References lv Politics Government