Pizā

See also: piza and Piza

Livonian

Etymology

Historically Pissen (attested from 1502 as weg, den von Stanszen vnnd Piszen herkombt) – Latvian Miķeļbāka, Pizesciems (Pize) or officially Miķeļtornis, Livonian Pizā. This toponym could be of Baltic origin: compare Old Prussian Pysekaym (1384), Pisdekaym (1388), Piselauk (1419), and parallels can be found in Lithuanian toponymy as well, e.g. Pisa (river); compare also Latvian Pisiņš (lake), Pisupīte, etc. The Lithuanian linguist A. Vanagas connects all these toponyms with Latvian pisa (“a bog, marsh, swamp without a bottom where only small birches and firs grow”), pise (“very thick forest”). An Old Prussian personal name Pisz (1261) should be noted too.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pizɑː/

Proper noun

Pizā

  1. Miķeļtornis (a village in Courland, Latvia)

Declension
Declension of Pizā (39)
singular (ikšlug) plural (pǟgiņlug)
nominative (nominatīv) Pizā –
genitive (genitīv) Pizā –
partitive (partitīv) Pizzõ –
dative (datīv) Pizān –
instrumental (instrumentāl) Pizāks –
illative (illatīv) Pizzõ –
inessive (inesīv) Pizās –
elative (elatīv) Pizāst –

References
  1. Kersti Boiko, Ziemeļkurzemes piekrastes lībiešu ciemu vietvārdi in Kersti Boiko's Lībieši – rakstu krājums, pages 219-220
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