āķis

āķis

See also: akis and akʼis

Latvian

Āķis

Āķis

Makšķeres āķi

Celtņa ākis

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): [āːcis]

Noun

āķis m (2nd declension)

1. 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

2. 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)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	āķis	āķi
accusative (akuzatīvs)	āķi	āķus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	āķa	āķu
dative (datīvs)	āķim	āķiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	āķi	āķiem
locative (lokatīvs)	āķī	āķos
vocative (vokatīvs)	āķi	āķi

See also

• kāsis
• ķeksis

References

1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “āķis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN