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līķis

Pronunciation: [līːcis]

“līķis” is a Latvian word. Its meaning in English:

noun

  1. dead body, corpse (the body of a dead person)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German lik (cf. Old Saxon līk, German Leiche), more specifically from the version of Baltic (Low) German spoken in Latvia in the 18th century, when the first recorded attestations occur. Previously, only its synonym mironis was used to express this meaning.

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