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vaina

Pronunciation: [vāīna]

“vaina” is a Latvian word. Its 4 meanings in English:

noun

  1. fault, guilt (an offense punishable according to the law; behavior or conduct with bad consequences)
  2. defect, imperfection, flaw, fault
  3. disease, ailment, wound
  4. cause

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wei-, *wai- (with an added suffix -nā-), from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to move, go ahead; to be strong”). Cognates include Lithuanian vainóti (“to criticize, to scold”) (compare archaic Lithuanian vaina (“error, transgression”)), Old Prussian etwinūt (“to blame”) (maybe a borrowing from Slavic), Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian вина́ (viná), Belarusian віна́ (viná,…

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