here lies

English

Etymology

Calque of Latin hīc jacet (whence also English hic jacet, a direct borrowing).

Phrase

here lies

1. A phrase written on gravestones followed by the buried person's name.

Translations

epitaph

• Catalan: aquí jeu
• Dutch: hier rust
• Esperanto: ĉi tie ripozas
• Finnish: tässä lepää
• French: ici repose, ci-gît (fr)
• Greek: ενθάδαι κείται (enthádai keítai)
• Hebrew: פ"נ
• Hungarian: itt nyugszik
• Ido: hike jacas
• Italian: qui giace, qui riposa
• Japanese: ここに眠る (ここにねむる, koko ni nemuru)
• Latin: hīc jacet
• Polish: tu spoczywa, tu leży
• Portuguese: aqui jaz
• Romanian: aici zace
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: овде почива, овдје почива, (archaic) а се лежи

  Roman: ovde počiva, ovdje počiva, (archaic) a se leži

• Spanish: aquí yace
• Swedish: här vilar