kuņģis

Latvian

Cilvēka kuņģis

Alternative forms

• (dialectal form) guņģis

Etymology

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

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

• aizkuņģa dziedzeris