As is evident with the loan "ģimene" "family," from the Lithuanian language, and are over-represented in borrowed lexical items. By comparing Lithuanian "gimti" (source of Lithuanian "giminė" and eventually Latvian "ģimene") and Latvian "dzimt" ("to be born") it can be observed that replacing dorsal consonants with affricates ( → , → ) before a front vowel is the more "native" way reserved for pre-front vowel dorsal consonant changes in native words as can be observed in Rīga → "rīdzinieks", "logs" ("window") → "palodze" ("windowsill") or "koks" ("tree") → "kociņš" ("a stick.")