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giminė

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From gìmti (to be born).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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giminė̃ f (plural gìminės) stress pattern 3b

  1. family or kin relations, kinfolk, relatives
  2. grammatical gender
  3. tribe
  4. biological genus

Usage notes

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Can refer to relatives of any gender, despite the gender of the noun itself being feminine.

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “giminė”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 176