licham

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈlɪt͡ʃəm/

Definition of licham

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (UK, dialectal, no-plural, obsolete, rare)The human body, especially when living.
    “[…] Nor a living for your licham that lief is to your soul. Believe not your licham, for a liar teaches him Which is the wretched world that wishes to betray you.”
    “For no lickerish living their licham to please.”
    “[…] Me shames with my licham, For I am naked as methink.”

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Etymology

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”). In Old English, līchama was…

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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”). 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”).

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