ķeksis
Latvian
Etymology
Cognates include Lithuanian kẽkšis, kẽkšė (“hook; stilt; pole”). There are similar words in neighboring non-Baltic languages: Livonian boathook, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Estonian dialectal keks, käks, köks (“hook; harpoon”), Finnish keksi (“hook”), Norwegian kjeks, Swedish käx (“small boathook”), which led many researchers to conclude that the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latvian dialectal terms ḳekains (“hooked”), ḳeks, ḳeḳa (“crutches”), ḳeḳis (“person with crooked teeth”).[1]
Noun
ķeksis m (2nd declension)
Declension
See also
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “ķeksis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN