āķis
Latvian
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German hake or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch haeck or an East Frisian word (compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Saterland Frisian Hoake (“hook”), German Haken), all ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *kek- (“peg, hook; to bend”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
āķis m (2nd declension)
- 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 no āķa ― to hang (something) on a hook
- noņemt uz āķa ― to take something off the hook
- celtņa āķis ― crane hook
- a hidden or disguised intention or thought
- tur vajag būt kādam āķim ― there should 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)
See also
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “āķis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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