zeķe

See also: zeke, Zeke, and zeķē

Latvian

Zeķes

Etymology

Borrowed from German Socke (Baltic German söcke), from Middle Low German socke (“short socks”), from Latin soccus (“low shoe”), itself a probable borrowing from some Near East language. The first mention of this word is in a 17th-century dictionary.[1]

Noun

zeķe f (5th declension)

  1. sock (garment that covers the foot)
    pusgarās zeķes ― long socks, stockings
    īsās zeķes ― short socks
    kaprona, neilona zeķes ― nylon stockings
    kokvilnas zeķes ― cotton socks
    vilnas zeķes ― wool socks
    siltas zeķes ― warm socks
    valkāt zeķes ― to wear socks
    adīt zeķes ― to knit socks
    lāpīt zeķes ― to mend socks

Declension

References

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