viens

Usage notes

 * Commonly used in the spoken language instead of the more formal-sounding first-person plural imperative in structures like "viens, on dort" (instead of "dormons", meaning "(come on,) let's sleep") when speaking to one person.

Etymology
Present participle of

Participle

 * 1) bending

Etymology
From  (with ey > ie metathesis; note that some 17th-century Kurzeme and Zemgale dialects still had some forms with ey), from a, from ,  (non-Baltic cognates derive from o-grade ; compare 🇨🇬) with a suffix , which originally had an adjectival meaning. The Eastern Baltic cognates (unlike 🇨🇬) have an initial v, which suggests an intermediate Eastern Baltic form *weynos. This initial *w may result from sporadic word-initial consonant-joining phenomena, or from a possible particle *w-, *we-. Cognates of include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (< ). From the form comes also 🇨🇬,,  (🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Numeral

 * 1) one the cipher, the cardinal number one
 * 2) one an amount equal to one
 * 3) one o'clock a moment in time; one hour after midnight, or after noon
 * 4)  one, unit the digit in the last position in a number
 * 5)  one (person, thing, event, action)
 * 6) one, a certain marking indefiniteness
 * 7) the same indicating identity, sameness
 * 8) alone, by oneself, without the help of others
 * 9)  one or other, some, a few (people, objects, events)
 * vienā otrā gadījumā, vietā — ín a few' cases, places
 * 1)  each other, one another indicating mutual relations, influence
 * 2)  one of the... member of a certain group
 * 3) one, in one indicating continuity, lack of interruption
 * 4) one, one really... used to intensify the meaning
 * 1)  one, unit the digit in the last position in a number
 * 2)  one (person, thing, event, action)
 * 3) one, a certain marking indefiniteness
 * 4) the same indicating identity, sameness
 * 5) alone, by oneself, without the help of others
 * 6)  one or other, some, a few (people, objects, events)
 * vienā otrā gadījumā, vietā — ín a few' cases, places
 * 1)  each other, one another indicating mutual relations, influence
 * 2)  one of the... member of a certain group
 * 3) one, in one indicating continuity, lack of interruption
 * 4) one, one really... used to intensify the meaning
 * 1) the same indicating identity, sameness
 * 2) alone, by oneself, without the help of others
 * 3)  one or other, some, a few (people, objects, events)
 * vienā otrā gadījumā, vietā — ín a few' cases, places
 * 1)  each other, one another indicating mutual relations, influence
 * 2)  one of the... member of a certain group
 * 3) one, in one indicating continuity, lack of interruption
 * 4) one, one really... used to intensify the meaning
 * 1) alone, by oneself, without the help of others
 * 2)  one or other, some, a few (people, objects, events)
 * vienā otrā gadījumā, vietā — ín a few' cases, places
 * 1)  each other, one another indicating mutual relations, influence
 * 2)  one of the... member of a certain group
 * 3) one, in one indicating continuity, lack of interruption
 * 4) one, one really... used to intensify the meaning
 * vienā otrā gadījumā, vietā — ín a few' cases, places
 * 1)  each other, one another indicating mutual relations, influence
 * 2)  one of the... member of a certain group
 * 3) one, in one indicating continuity, lack of interruption
 * 4) one, one really... used to intensify the meaning
 * 1)  one of the... member of a certain group
 * 2) one, in one indicating continuity, lack of interruption
 * 3) one, one really... used to intensify the meaning
 * 1)  one of the... member of a certain group
 * 2) one, in one indicating continuity, lack of interruption
 * 3) one, one really... used to intensify the meaning
 * 1) one, in one indicating continuity, lack of interruption
 * 2) one, one really... used to intensify the meaning
 * 1) one, one really... used to intensify the meaning
 * 1) one, one really... used to intensify the meaning
 * 1) one, one really... used to intensify the meaning
 * 1) one, one really... used to intensify the meaning
 * 1) one, one really... used to intensify the meaning

Usage notes
Usually, only the singular forms of are used; the plural forms only occur with plural-only words (“pluralia tantum“). Also, in time expressions, the singular viens is used in “it is one o'clock,” but the plural form vieniem is used with postpositions (note also the simple locative plural form vienos “at one o'clock”).