Noun: dzemde
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | dzemde |
| Accusative | dzemdi |
| Genitive | dzemdes |
| Dative | dzemdei |
| Instrumental | dzemdi |
| Locative | dzemdē |
| Vocative | dzemde |
Plural
| Nominative | dzemdes |
| Accusative | dzemdes |
| Genitive | dzemžu |
| Dative | dzemdēm |
| Instrumental | dzemdēm |
| Locative | dzemdēs |
| Vocative | dzemdes |
Sample Sentences
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dzemdes dobums (uterine cavity)
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dzemdes kakls (uterus neck (= cervix))
Nouns inflected like dzemde
paparde,
sekunde,
desmitgade,
saspraude,
šķēde,
bilde,
klade,
pelde,
varde,
valde,
raude,
spīde,
sirde,
ziede,
šokolāde,
atbilde,
tūkstošgade,
dzemde,
metode,
iegāde, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Baltic *gem-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to go, to come, to step”); compare dzemdēt (“to give birth”) (q.v.). From the zero grade form *gʷm̥- comes Latvian dzimt (“to be born”) (q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian gimda.
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