See līką in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "līkahamô"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmw-pro",
"2": "*līk"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic: *līk\nOld English: līċ\nMiddle English: like, lich\nScots: lyke\nEnglish: lich\nOld Frisian: līk\nSaterland Frisian: Lieke\nWest Frisian: lyk\nOld Saxon: līk\nMiddle Low German: lîk, lîch\nGerman Low German: Liek\nPlautdietsch: Leich, Leiche\n→ Latvian: līķis\nOld Dutch: *līk\nMiddle Dutch: lijc\nDutch: lijk\nAfrikaans: lyk\nOld High German: līh\nMiddle High German: leich\nCentral Franconian: Lich\nBavarian: Leich\nGerman: Leiche\nLuxembourgish: Läich",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Proto-West Germanic: *līk\nOld English: līċ\nMiddle English: like, lich\nScots: lyke\nEnglish: lich\nOld Frisian: līk\nSaterland Frisian: Lieke\nWest Frisian: lyk\nOld Saxon: līk\nMiddle Low German: lîk, lîch\nGerman Low German: Liek\nPlautdietsch: Leich, Leiche\n→ Latvian: līķis\nOld Dutch: *līk\nMiddle Dutch: lijc\nDutch: lijk\nAfrikaans: lyk\nOld High German: līh\nMiddle High German: leich\nCentral Franconian: Lich\nBavarian: Leich\nGerman: Leiche\nLuxembourgish: Läich"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "lík"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse: lík",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Norse: lík"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "lík"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic: lík",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Icelandic: lík"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fo",
"2": "lík"
},
"expansion": "Faroese: lík",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Faroese: lík"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nrn",
"2": "lik"
},
"expansion": "Norn: lik",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Norn: lik"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "lik"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian: lik",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Norwegian: lik"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmq-osw",
"2": "lik",
"alt": "līk"
},
"expansion": "Old Swedish: līk",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Swedish: līk"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "lik"
},
"expansion": "Swedish: lik",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Swedish: lik"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmq-oda",
"2": "lik",
"alt": "līk"
},
"expansion": "Old Danish: līk",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Danish: līk"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "lig"
},
"expansion": "Danish: lig",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Danish: lig"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmq-scy",
"2": "læj"
},
"expansion": "Scanian: læj",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Scanian: læj"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmq-gut",
"2": "leik"
},
"expansion": "Gutnish: leik",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Gutnish: leik"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺"
},
"expansion": "Gothic: 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺 (leik)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Gothic: 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺 (leik)"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*leyg-",
"id": "like"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*leyg-",
"4": "",
"5": "image, likeness; similar, like",
"id": "like"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image, likeness; similar, like”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lt",
"2": "lýgus",
"t": "equal, level, flat, even, like"
},
"expansion": "Lithuanian lýgus (“equal, level, flat, even, like”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image, likeness; similar, like”), with semantic shift \"similar\" > \"having a similar shape\" > \"likeness\" > \"body\". Cognate with Lithuanian lýgus (“equal, level, flat, even, like”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "gem-decl-noun",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "a-stem",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "līką",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "līkō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "līką",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "līkō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "līką",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "līkō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "līkas",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "līkis",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "līkǫ̂",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "līkai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "līkamaz",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "līkō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "līkamiz",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "gem-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Proto-Germanic",
"lang_code": "gem-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/līką",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "-līkaz"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "līkāną"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"body"
],
"id": "en-līką-gem-pro-noun-Iw2DWNyO",
"links": [
[
"body",
"body"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "*būkaz"
},
{
"word": "*hrefaz"
}
],
"tags": [
"neuter",
"reconstruction"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"corpse, dead body"
],
"id": "en-līką-gem-pro-noun-gv9lWh~6",
"links": [
[
"corpse",
"corpse"
],
[
"dead",
"dead"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "*līkahamô"
}
],
"tags": [
"neuter",
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.kɑ̃/"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Brill Publishers"
],
"word": "līką"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "leech"
},
"expansion": "English: leech",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: leech"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "lijk"
},
"expansion": "Dutch: lijk",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Dutch: lijk"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "līk"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German: līk",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle Low German: līk"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmh",
"2": "geleich",
"t": "joint, link"
},
"expansion": "Middle High German: geleich (“joint, link”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle High German: geleich (“joint, link”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "lík"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse: lík",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Norse: lík"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "lig"
},
"expansion": "Danish: lig",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Danish: lig"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*leyǵ-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*leyǵ-",
"4": "",
"5": "to bind"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ligō",
"3": "",
"4": "to bind"
},
"expansion": "Latin ligō (“to bind”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Probably Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”), and cognate with Latin ligō (“to bind”). Kroonen, in addition to the above theory, offers an alternative suggestion that the word is a semantic extension of the \"body\" sense above, with semantic association \"to connect\" > \"to compare\" > \"to be alike\".",
"lang": "Proto-Germanic",
"lang_code": "gem-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/līką",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "3 10 87",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 8 89",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 9 89",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"leech-line, bolt-rope"
],
"id": "en-līką-gem-pro-noun-VZVj-gib",
"links": [
[
"leech",
"leech"
],
[
"line",
"line"
],
[
"bolt-rope",
"bolt-rope"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter",
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.kɑ̃/"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Brill Publishers"
],
"word": "līką"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Proto-Germanic a-stem nouns",
"Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
"Proto-Germanic lemmas",
"Proto-Germanic neuter nouns",
"Proto-Germanic nouns",
"Proto-Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Proto-Germanic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leyg- (like)",
"Proto-Germanic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leyǵ-"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "līkahamô"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmw-pro",
"2": "*līk"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic: *līk\nOld English: līċ\nMiddle English: like, lich\nScots: lyke\nEnglish: lich\nOld Frisian: līk\nSaterland Frisian: Lieke\nWest Frisian: lyk\nOld Saxon: līk\nMiddle Low German: lîk, lîch\nGerman Low German: Liek\nPlautdietsch: Leich, Leiche\n→ Latvian: līķis\nOld Dutch: *līk\nMiddle Dutch: lijc\nDutch: lijk\nAfrikaans: lyk\nOld High German: līh\nMiddle High German: leich\nCentral Franconian: Lich\nBavarian: Leich\nGerman: Leiche\nLuxembourgish: Läich",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Proto-West Germanic: *līk\nOld English: līċ\nMiddle English: like, lich\nScots: lyke\nEnglish: lich\nOld Frisian: līk\nSaterland Frisian: Lieke\nWest Frisian: lyk\nOld Saxon: līk\nMiddle Low German: lîk, lîch\nGerman Low German: Liek\nPlautdietsch: Leich, Leiche\n→ Latvian: līķis\nOld Dutch: *līk\nMiddle Dutch: lijc\nDutch: lijk\nAfrikaans: lyk\nOld High German: līh\nMiddle High German: leich\nCentral Franconian: Lich\nBavarian: Leich\nGerman: Leiche\nLuxembourgish: Läich"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "lík"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse: lík",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Norse: lík"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "lík"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic: lík",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Icelandic: lík"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fo",
"2": "lík"
},
"expansion": "Faroese: lík",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Faroese: lík"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nrn",
"2": "lik"
},
"expansion": "Norn: lik",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Norn: lik"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "lik"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian: lik",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Norwegian: lik"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmq-osw",
"2": "lik",
"alt": "līk"
},
"expansion": "Old Swedish: līk",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Swedish: līk"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "lik"
},
"expansion": "Swedish: lik",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Swedish: lik"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmq-oda",
"2": "lik",
"alt": "līk"
},
"expansion": "Old Danish: līk",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Danish: līk"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "lig"
},
"expansion": "Danish: lig",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Danish: lig"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmq-scy",
"2": "læj"
},
"expansion": "Scanian: læj",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Scanian: læj"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmq-gut",
"2": "leik"
},
"expansion": "Gutnish: leik",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Gutnish: leik"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺"
},
"expansion": "Gothic: 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺 (leik)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Gothic: 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺 (leik)"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*leyg-",
"id": "like"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*leyg-",
"4": "",
"5": "image, likeness; similar, like",
"id": "like"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image, likeness; similar, like”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lt",
"2": "lýgus",
"t": "equal, level, flat, even, like"
},
"expansion": "Lithuanian lýgus (“equal, level, flat, even, like”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image, likeness; similar, like”), with semantic shift \"similar\" > \"having a similar shape\" > \"likeness\" > \"body\". Cognate with Lithuanian lýgus (“equal, level, flat, even, like”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "gem-decl-noun",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "a-stem",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"class"
]
},
{
"form": "līką",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "līkō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "līką",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "līkō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "līką",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "līkō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "līkas",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "līkis",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "līkǫ̂",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "līkai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "līkamaz",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "līkō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "līkamiz",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "gem-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Proto-Germanic",
"lang_code": "gem-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/līką",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "-līkaz"
},
{
"word": "līkāną"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"body"
],
"links": [
[
"body",
"body"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "*būkaz"
},
{
"word": "*hrefaz"
}
],
"tags": [
"neuter",
"reconstruction"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"corpse, dead body"
],
"links": [
[
"corpse",
"corpse"
],
[
"dead",
"dead"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "*līkahamô"
}
],
"tags": [
"neuter",
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.kɑ̃/"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Brill Publishers"
],
"word": "līką"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
"Proto-Germanic lemmas",
"Proto-Germanic neuter nouns",
"Proto-Germanic nouns",
"Proto-Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Proto-Germanic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leyǵ-"
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "leech"
},
"expansion": "English: leech",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: leech"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "lijk"
},
"expansion": "Dutch: lijk",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Dutch: lijk"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "līk"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German: līk",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle Low German: līk"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmh",
"2": "geleich",
"t": "joint, link"
},
"expansion": "Middle High German: geleich (“joint, link”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle High German: geleich (“joint, link”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "lík"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse: lík",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Norse: lík"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "lig"
},
"expansion": "Danish: lig",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Danish: lig"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*leyǵ-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*leyǵ-",
"4": "",
"5": "to bind"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ligō",
"3": "",
"4": "to bind"
},
"expansion": "Latin ligō (“to bind”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Probably Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”), and cognate with Latin ligō (“to bind”). Kroonen, in addition to the above theory, offers an alternative suggestion that the word is a semantic extension of the \"body\" sense above, with semantic association \"to connect\" > \"to compare\" > \"to be alike\".",
"lang": "Proto-Germanic",
"lang_code": "gem-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/līką",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"leech-line, bolt-rope"
],
"links": [
[
"leech",
"leech"
],
[
"line",
"line"
],
[
"bolt-rope",
"bolt-rope"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter",
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈliː.kɑ̃/"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Brill Publishers"
],
"word": "līką"
}
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