zeķe

See also: zeke, Zeke, and zeķē

Latvian
Zeķes

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)

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