āķis

See also: Appendix:Variations of "akis"

Latvian

Āķis

Āķis

Makšķeres āķi

Celtņa āķis

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German hake or Middle Dutch haeck or an East Frisian word (compare Saterland Frisian Hoake (“hook”), German Haken), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *kek- (“peg, hook; to bend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɑ̄ːcis]

Noun

āķis m (2nd declension)

1. hook (instrument with a curved extremity ending in a pointed tip, used to hang or suspend things)

   metāla, tērauda, kaula āķis ― metal, steel, bone hook

   iedzīt klintī āķus ― to drive hooks into the rock

   makšķeres āķis ― fishhook

   uzlikt ēsmu uz āķa ― to put the bait on the (fish)hook

   uzkabināt uz āķa ― to hang (something) on a hook

   noņemt no āķa ― to take something off from the hook

   celtņa āķis ― crane hook

2. a hidden or disguised intention or thought

   tur vajag būt kādam āķim ― there has to be some hook (= hidden intention) there

   lūk, kur tas āķis! — look, there is the hook! (= that was the hidden intention)

Declension

Declension of āķis (2nd declension)

	singular	plural
nominative	āķis	āķi
genitive	āķa	āķu
dative	āķim	āķiem
accusative	āķi	āķus
instrumental	āķi	āķiem
locative	āķī	āķos
vocative	āķi	āķi

See also

• kāsis
• ķeksis