Ein Lebensmittel aus Mehl und Wasser, meist mit Hefe oder Sauerteig, das als Laib gebacken und in Scheiben oder Stücken gegessen wird.
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Brokastīs es apēdu divas maizes šķēles.
Zum Frühstück aß ich zwei Scheiben Brot.
Vecmāmiņa pati cep rudzu maizi.
Großmutter backt ihr Roggenbrot selbst.
Uzsmērē sviestu uz maizes.
Streich Butter auf das Brot.
Veikalā nopirkām svaigu maizes klaipu.
Im Laden kauften wir einen frischen Laib Brot.
Pie zupas pasniedza tumšo maizi.
Zur Suppe wurde dunkles Brot serviert.
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Etymologie
Ein altes baltisches Wort, verwandt mit lettisch mieži für „Gerste“. Der tiefere Ursprung wird mit iranischen Wörtern aus einer Wurzel für „säen“ verbunden.
FAQ
Was bedeutet maize auf Lettisch?
Maize bedeutet Brot.
Wie spricht man maize aus?
Maize wird /ˈmai̯ze/ ausgesprochen, mit Betonung auf der ersten Silbe.
Welches Geschlecht hat maize?
Maize ist feminin.
Wie lautet der Genitiv von maize?
Der Genitiv Singular lautet maizes.
Bedeutet lettisch maize Mais?
Nein. Maize bedeutet Brot, Mais heißt auf Lettisch kukurūza.
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Free Turtle
Aug 13
There is also pelnīt maizi, literally earning bread, meaning earning a living. So if someone says a job dod maizi, nobody is talking about free loaves.
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Eager Shrew
Aug 15
Latvian has a lot of these bread = livelihood phrases, very same feeling as хлеб in Russian
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Fond Hornbill
Aug 12
For bar food, ķiploku grauzdiņi are fried rye bread with garlic. Tourists sometimes expect garlic toast, but its harder, darker, salty, beer snack energy.
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Swift Panda
Aug 10
Rupjmaizes kārtojums is another one where the word hides inside the dish name. It is the layered dessert with rye breadcrumbs, jam and cream, so dont translate it as some kind of bread arrangement and panic.
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Wandering Condor
Aug 12
this one is so good cold from the fridge next morning
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Pearl Sparrow
Aug 7
Maizes zupa is dessert, not soup with bread beside it.
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Vivid Curlew
Aug 6
Saldskābmaize sounds like it should be cake when you first learn it, but no. It is the sweet-sour rye bread type, and caraway is not a strange modern flavouring there, it belongs to the traditional version. My Latvian friends argue about brands of it like people argue about coffee.
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Steady Meerkat
Aug 6
baltmaize = white bread. baltā maize is understandable too, but the compound is what you see/hear a lot.
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Humble Rabbit
Aug 1
Rupjmaize is the dark rye one. If you come from English and picture soft rye sandwich bread, Latvian rupjmaize is much heavier and darker, more like black bread.
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Dusty Fawn
Aug 2
Proper one with butter is basically a meal, no need to decorate it
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Cosmic Quail
Jul 30
At a cafe maizīte can just mean a sandwich. Desu maizīte, siera maizīte, that sort of thing.
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Stormy Tiger
Jul 30
and usually open sandwich, at least the ones I was given in Riga
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Steady Curlew
Jul 21
maizes is the form that got me. Sometimes it is singular genitive, like maizes šķēle, and sometimes it is normal plural, like the bakery has three different maizes today. You dont get a new ending to warn you, you just have to read the sentence around it.