āķis
See also: Appendix:Variations of "akis"
Latvian edit
Etymology edit
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”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 edit
Declension of āķis (2nd declension)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “āķis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN