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Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic , from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-, the same root as gemd (“to give birth”). Compare Lithuanian giminė̃, Latvian ģimene (Lithuanism).[1][2]
Noun
gimna
- family; uncles, aunts (uncles' wives)
References
- ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 73: “gimna ‘giminė, dėdės, tetulės, l. rodzina, wujki, wujenki’ 214.”
- ^ “gìmti” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. gemd vb. ‘gebären’; gimna sf. ‘Familie, Onkel, deren Frauen’”.