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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *līką</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-02"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_līką_1</idno>
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        <p>Single-entry extract from the dictionary. Cross-references to other entries point to their identifiers in the full dictionary.</p>
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      <list type="cognates">
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_leyg" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*leyg-</orth>
          <def>to jump around, bounce, shake, tremble</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_lit_lygus" xml:lang="lit" type="cognate">
          <orth>lýgus</orth>
          <def>equal, level, flat, even, like</def>
        </item>
      </list>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_lika_1" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/līką">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>līką</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈliː.kɑ̃</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛚᛁᚲᚨ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">neuter</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>body</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>corpse, dead body</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_leyg"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_leyg">*leyg-</ref></mentioned> (‘image, likeness; similar, like’), with semantic shift "similar" &gt; "having a similar shape" &gt; "likeness" &gt; "body". Cognate with Lithuanian <mentioned xml:lang="lit" target="#cog_lit_lygus"><ref target="#cog_lit_lygus">lýgus</ref></mentioned> (‘equal, level, flat, even, like’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>līką</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>līkō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>līką</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>līkō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>līkas, līkis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>līkǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>līkai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>līkamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>līkō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>līkamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>līką</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>līkō</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
          <re type="descendants">
            <list>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*līk</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>līk</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>lijc</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>lijk</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>lyk</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*līk</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>līċ</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>lik, lich</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>lich, like</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>lyke</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*līk</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>līk</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>Lieke</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>lyk</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*līk</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>līh</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>lîch, lîche, leich</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Bavarian</lang>
                        <orth>Leich</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Central Franconian</lang>
                        <orth>Lich</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Leiche</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                        <orth>Läich</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*līk</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>līk</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>lîk</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Latvian</lang>
                        <orth>līķis</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Plautdietsch</lang>
                        <orth>Leich, Leiche</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*līk</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>līk</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>lîk</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>Lieke</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>German Low German</lang>
                          <orth>Liek</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>lík</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>lík</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Gutnish</lang>
                    <orth>leik</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>lík</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norn</lang>
                    <orth>lik</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>lik</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Scanian</lang>
                    <orth>læj</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>lík</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                    <orth>līk</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>lig</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                        <orth>lik</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>lík</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>līk</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>lik</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Gothic</lang>
                  <orth>𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺 (leik)</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
            </list>
          </re>
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