zarna

From Proto-Baltic *źer-, *źar- (with an extra suffix *-nā), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“bowel, intestine”). In the 17th and 18th centuries, several variants of this stem are attested: zarnis, zarns, sarna. Cognates include Lithuanian žárna, žarnà, Old Norse gǫrn, Old High German garn, Middle Low German garn (“yarn”), German Garn (“yarn”), Albanian zorrë (“intestine”), Sanskrit हिरः (hiraḥ, “tape, stripe”), हिरा (hirā, “vein”), Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ), Latin haruspex (“diviner who reads the intestines of sacrificed animals”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [zâɾna]

zarna f (4th declension)

1. (anatomy, often plural) intestine, bowel (part of the digestive tract between the stomach and the anus)

   zarnu trakts ― intestinal tract

   zarnu sieniņa ― intestinal wall

   tievā zarna ― small (lit. thin) intestine

   resnā zarna ― colon (lit. fat intestine)

   taisnā zarna ― rectum (lit. straight intestine)

   zarnu darbība ― bowel movement (lit. intestine activity)

   zarnu slimības ― intestinal diseases

   zarnu iekaisums ― intestinal inflammation

   zarnu parazīti ― intestinal parasites