mežs

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) forest, wood

Etymology
From earlier (genitive, also yielding  by analogy), from , from. The original meaning was “(that which is) in the middle, in-between” > “forest” (since long ago villages were like little islands between stretches of forest, “what is between (villages)” = “forest”). Cognates include 🇨🇬, dialectal, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (< ), 🇨🇬, (🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) forest dense collection of trees and bushes on a stretch of land