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.

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

• mironis