līķis

See also: likis

Latvian
Līķis

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German lik (cf. Old Saxon līk, German Leiche), more specifically from the version of Baltic (Low) German spoken in Latvia in the 18th century, when the first recorded attestations occur. Previously, only its synonym mironis was used to express this meaning.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [līːcis]
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Noun

līķis m (2nd declension)

  1. dead body, corpse (the body of a dead person)
    bāls kā līķis ― pale as a corpse
    līķu balzamēšanā neviens nav varējis sacensties ar ēģiptiešiem ― (with respect to) embalming corpses, nobody has been able to compete with the (ancient) Egyptians

Declension
Declension of līķis (2nd declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) līķis līķi
accusative (akuzatīvs) līķi līķus
genitive (ģenitīvs) līķa līķu
dative (datīvs) līķim līķiem
instrumental (instrumentālis) līķi līķiem
locative (lokatīvs) līķī līķos
vocative (vokatīvs) līķi līķi

Synonyms

References
  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “līķis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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