lík

Inherited from Old Norse lík, from Proto-Germanic *līką, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-.

• IPA^(key): /lʊiːjk/

  Rhymes: -ʊiːjk

lík n (genitive singular líks, plural lík)

1. dead body, corpse

• (dead body): ræ

Inherited from Old Norse lík, from Proto-Germanic *līką, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-.

• IPA^(key): /liːk/

  Rhymes: -iːk

lík n (genitive singular líks, nominative plural lík)

1. body, living body
2. corpse, dead body

   Synonyms: hræ, nár

3. an empty bottle or can of alcohol

• líkkista
• líkmaður

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /liːk/

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *līką, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-.

lík n

1. a body
   • Anonymous, Hávamál 94:

     Billings mey · ek fann beðjum á,
     sólhvíta sofa;
     jarls ynði · þótti mér ekki vera
     nema við þat lík at lifa

     Billing’s daughter I found on the beds,
     sunwhite, sleeping.
     No pleasure seemed to me fitting for an earl
     except living with that body.

2. a corpse

   Synonyms: hræ, nár, valr

From Proto-Germanic *līką, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“to bind”). Possibly a semantic extention from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“similar, like”).

lík n

1. a bolt-rope, leech line.

• Icelandic: lík
• Faroese: lík
• Norn: lik
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lik
• Norwegian Bokmål: lik
• Old Swedish: līk
  • Swedish: lik
• Old Danish: līk
  • Danish: lig
• Scanian: læj
• Gutnish: leik

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “lík”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 274; also available at the Internet Archive
• Kroonen, Guus (2013), Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 336
• Kroonen, Guus (2013), Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 337