zeķe

See also: zeke, Zeke, and zeķē

Latvian

zeķe on Latvian Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from German Socke (Baltic German söcke), from Middle Low German socke (“short socks”), from Latin soccus (“low shoe”), itself a probable borrowing from some Near East language. The first mention of this word is in a 17th-century dictionary.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [zece]

Noun

zeķe f (5th declension)

sock (garment that covers the foot)
pusgarās zeķes ― long socks, stockings

īsās zeķes ― short socks

kaprona, neilona zeķes ― nylon stockings

kokvilnas zeķes ― cotton socks

vilnas zeķes ― wool socks

siltas zeķes ― warm socks

valkāt zeķes ― to wear socks

adīt zeķes ― to knit socks

lāpīt zeķes ― to mend socks

Declension

Declension of zeķe (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	zeķe	zeķes
accusative (akuzatīvs)	zeķi	zeķes
genitive (ģenitīvs)	zeķes	zeķu
dative (datīvs)	zeķei	zeķēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	zeķi	zeķēm
locative (lokatīvs)	zeķē	zeķēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	zeķe	zeķes

References

^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “zeķe”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎^[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

[1] Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “zeķe”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎^[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

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