See also: dzimenē

Latvian edit

Etymology edit

A form introduced in the 1870s by Juris Alunāns to replace ģimene (the regular development of which would indeed have been dzimene if it had not been borrowed from Lithuanian), but which never became popular.[1]

Noun edit

dzimene f (5th declension)

  1. family; obsolete form of ģimene

Declension edit

References edit

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “dzimene”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN