reņģe

See also: réngé, rëngë, and reņģē

Latvian

Etymology

Apparently borrowed from Old Frisian hareng (“herring”) (itself maybe from here (“swarm, school of fish”), i.e. originally “school of fish” > “fish that swims in schools”), with loss of the initial syllable (*hareng > *renge > reņģe). This loanword is already found in 16th-century family names, and later in 17th-century dictionaries.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɾɛ̄ɲɟɛ]

Noun

reņģe f (5th declension)

herring (many fish species of the family Clupeidae, especially Clupea harengus membras, which is about 25 cm long, with a bluish green back and silvery sides)
žāvēta reņģe — dried, smoked herring

reņģes tomātu mērcē ― herrings in tomato sauce

veikalā viņš bija ieraudzījis un nopircis svaigas reņģes ― in the store he had found and bought fresh herring

Declension

Declension of reņģe (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	reņģe	reņģes
genitive (ģenitīvs)	reņģes	reņģu
dative (datīvs)	reņģei	reņģēm
accusative (akuzatīvs)	reņģi	reņģes
instrumental (instrumentālis)	reņģi	reņģēm
locative (lokatīvs)	reņģē	reņģēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	reņģe	reņģes

References

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

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

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