kuņģis

Latvian
Cilvēka kuņģis

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latvian dialectal from guņģis (“belly”) by dissimilation, from Proto-Indo-European *geng- (“lump”), from the stem *gen- (“to squeeze, to make (something) round”). See also Latvian dziedzeris (“gland”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kūɲɟis]
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Noun

kuņģis m (2nd declension)

  1. (anatomy) stomach (extension of the digestive tract between the oesophagus and the small intestine)
    cilvēka kuņģis ― human stomach
    kuņģa siena ― stomach wall
    kuņģa sula ― gastric juice
    kuņģa slimība ― stomach disease
    kuņģa čūla, jēlums ― stomach ulcer

Declension
Declension of kuņģis (2nd declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) kuņģis kuņģi
accusative (akuzatīvs) kuņģi kuņģus
genitive (ģenitīvs) kuņģa kuņģu
dative (datīvs) kuņģim kuņģiem
instrumental (instrumentālis) kuņģi kuņģiem
locative (lokatīvs) kuņģī kuņģos
vocative (vokatīvs) kuņģi kuņģi

Derived terms

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