*lēkijaz

Runic: ᛚᛖᚲᛁᛃᚨᛉ Pronunciation: /ˈlɛː.ki.jɑz/

noun · masculine · ja-stem

Meanings

doctor, physician

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from *lēkiz (‘healing; medicine; healer’) + *-jaz, or borrowed from Proto-Celtic *leigis (‘healer’) of the same root. Perhaps also from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (‘to collect, gather’), and thus related to Latin legō. Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (‘to leak’), with original sense of "blood-letter (leaker)" > "leech (used in therapy)" > "doctor", though this is speculative.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nom.lēkijazlēkijōz, lēkijōs
Acc.lēkijąlēkijanz
Gen.lēkijas, lēkīslēkijǫ̂
Dat.lēkijailēkijamaz
Inst.lēkijōlēkijamiz
Voc.lēkīlēkijōz, lēkijōs

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Descendants

  • *lākī (Proto-West Germanic)
    • lēka, lētza (Old Frisian)
    • lāhhi (Old High German)
  • *lākī (Proto-West Germanic)
    • lǣċe (Old English)
      • leche (Middle English)
        • leech (English)
  • ? (Old Norse)
    • *lækir (Old East Norse)
    • læknir (Old West Norse)
  • ? (Old Norse)
    • ? (Old West Norse)
      • lækni (Faroese)
      • læknir (Icelandic)
  • ? (Old Norse)
    • ? (Old West Norse)
      • lægæ, legi (Old Danish)
        • læge (Danish)
          • ? (Norwegian)
            • lege (Norwegian Bokmål)
            • lege (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  • ? (Old Norse)
    • ? (Old West Norse)
      • lǣkir, lǣkiare (Old Swedish)
        • lääkäri, lääke (Finnish)
        • läkare (Swedish)
  • ? (Old Norse)
    • ? (Old West Norse)
      • lǣkir, lǣkiare (Old Swedish)
        • ? (Norwegian)
          • lækjar (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  • 𐌻𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍃 (lēkeis) (Gothic)

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