Noun: licham
Sample Sentences
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[…] Nor a living for your licham that lief is to your soul.
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Believe not your licham, for a liar teaches him
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Which is the wretched world that wishes to betray you. [1973, Frank Kermode, John Hollander, The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, volume 1, page 358:]
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For no lickerish living their licham to please. [1987, Romano Carlo Cerrone, Piero Pignata, England & Co, page 51:]
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[…] Me shames with my licham,
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For I am naked as methink. [2018, Christina M. Fitzgerald, John T. Sebastian, The York Corpus Christi Play:]
Nouns inflected like licham
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English licham, lichame, from Old English līċhama (“body”), from Proto-West Germanic *līkahamō, from Proto-Germanic *līkahamô, equivalent to like (“body”) + hame (“covering, case”).
2. In Old English, līchama was the general term for "body," while līċ had come to mean a dead body specifically. Cognate with Scots lekame (“body”), West Frisian lichem (“body”), Dutch lichaam (“body”), German Leichnam (“body, corpse”), Danish legeme (“body”), Swedish lekamen (“body”), Icelandic líkami (“body”). See: Old English Nouns '
līċhama', Dutch Nouns '
lichaam', German Nouns '
Leichnam', Danish Nouns '
legeme', Swedish Nouns '
lekamen', Icelandic Nouns '
líkami'.