ķeksis

Latvian

Laivas ķeksis

Ķeksis

Etymology

Cognates include Lithuanian kẽkšis, kẽkšė (“hook; stilt; pole”). There are similar words in neighboring non-Baltic languages: Livonian boathook, dialectal Estonian keks, käks, köks (“hook; harpoon”), Finnish keksi (“hook”), Norwegian kjeks, Swedish käx (“small boathook”), which led many researchers to conclude that the Latvian term was borrowed. But it is also possible that the other languages borrowed from Baltic; in which case ķeksis might continue Proto-Indo-European *kek- (“to curve, bend”) with an additional -s (compare Sanskrit कक्षा (kákṣā, “armpit, nook, corner”)); compare Latvian dialectal terms ḳekains (“hooked”), ḳeks, ḳeḳa (“crutches”), ḳeḳis (“person with crooked teeth”).

Noun

ķeksis m (2nd declension)

1. pole with a hook; cant hook; boathook
2. a checkmark; tick.

Declension

Declension of ķeksis (2nd declension)

	singular	plural
nominative	ķeksis	ķekši
genitive	ķekša	ķekšu
dative	ķeksim	ķekšiem
accusative	ķeksi	ķekšus
instrumental	ķeksi	ķekšiem
locative	ķeksī	ķekšos
vocative	ķeksi	ķekši

See also

• āķis
• kāsis