zaķis

Etymology
The origin of this word is unclear. Traditionally, it is explained as a borrowing from dialectal, reshaped under the influence of , but the similar 🇨🇬 cognate makes this explanation dubious. It is difficult also to make it compatible with the 🇨🇬 and Slavic cognates. For the Slavic terms, there are various opinions, generally leading up to the 🇨🇬 stem. It is possible that the root of all those forms may be some pre-Indo-European word to which Indo-European suffixes were attached. Cognates include 🇨🇬 dialectal, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) hare esp.
 * 2)  stowaway; person who rides (a bus, a train, etc.) without paying the fare
 * 1)  stowaway; person who rides (a bus, a train, etc.) without paying the fare
 * 1)  stowaway; person who rides (a bus, a train, etc.) without paying the fare
 * 1)  stowaway; person who rides (a bus, a train, etc.) without paying the fare
 * 1)  stowaway; person who rides (a bus, a train, etc.) without paying the fare

Usage notes
In English, is the preferred word when one does not want to distinguish rabbits from hares; in Latvian,  is preferred, and  is less frequent. (Note that the Latvian Easter Bunny is in fact the Easter Hare.)