ģints

Etymology
Traditionally considered borrowed from. But the 🇨🇬 form has en instead of in; in occurs only in some Eastern 🇨🇬 dialects. Also, in the 17th century, forms with in are attested in Semigallia (Zemgale), agreeing with the [in] in 🇨🇬; it may therefore be that  was originally not a borrowing but an old Curonian word which later spread from Western Latvia to Semigallia. Note that older Semigallian dialects sometimes conserved initial ģ (> dz in standard ): cf. place names like or. If this is the case, then, like 🇨🇬, reflects (< ) “to create,” “to give birth” (via an unaltered , where the initial g, instead of ž, results from either the influence of the related stem , whence also  “to give birth,” or from conservative dialectal variants).

Noun

 * 1)  family, kin group, clan a primitive unit of social organization, based on blood relations and lineage from a common ancestor
 * 2)  people group of people with common interests, ideas, goals, viewpoints
 * 3)  genus a group of species
 * 1)  people group of people with common interests, ideas, goals, viewpoints
 * 2)  genus a group of species
 * 1)  people group of people with common interests, ideas, goals, viewpoints
 * 2)  genus a group of species
 * 1)  genus a group of species
 * 1)  genus a group of species
 * 1)  genus a group of species