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Cognates include Lithuaniankẽkšis, kẽkšė(“hook; stilt; pole”). There are similar words in neighboring non-Baltic languages: Livonianboathook, dialectal Estoniankeks, käks, köks(“hook; harpoon”), Finnishkeksi(“hook”), Norwegiankjeks, Swedishkäx(“small boathook”), which led many researchers to conclude that the Latvian term was borrowed. But it is also possible that the other languages borrowed from Baltic; in which case ķeksis might continue Proto-Indo-European *kek-(“to curve, bend”) with an additional -s (compare Sanskritकक्षा(kákṣā, “armpit, nook, corner”)); compare Latvian dialectal terms ḳekains(“hooked”), ḳeks, ḳeḳa(“crutches”), ḳeḳis(“person with crooked teeth”).[1]
