miegs

Etymology
From (Eastern Baltic ), from, from the stem  with an extra -g(ʰ)- (whence also 🇨🇬 “to press, to squeeze”). The original meaning was thus “closing, pressing together” (the eyelids), from which “sleep”. Cognates include 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, , , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) sleep the act or state of sleeping, of being asleep