Vecāķi

Neighborhood of Riga, Latvia

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Neighbourhood of Riga in Northern District, Latvia

Vecāķi
Neighbourhood of Riga
Location of Vecāķi in Riga
Country	Latvia
City	Riga
District	Northern District
Area
• Total	2.303 km² (0.889 sq mi)
Population (2017)
• Total	1,765
• Density	770/km² (2,000/sq mi)
Website	apkaimes.lv

Vecāķi (Latvian pronunciation: [ˈvætsaːci]) is a Northern District neighbourhood in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It is one of Riga's neighborhoods lying on the shores of Gulf of Riga, Baltic Sea. Westward Vecāķi is bordered by Vecdaugava – a partial oxbow lake (a dead-end fork of River Daugava that hasn't been cut off from it completely.) Thus Vecāķi offers both freshwater and brackish water bathing places, with the former having a higher water temperature come summer due to the smaller volume of Vecdaugava.^[1]

German names for the town include Bad Magnushof, Wezaken,^[2] and Wetsanck Dorf.

Etymology

The name may be a compound of vecs and āķis pluralized to mean "Old Hook." Vecs being a native Baltic word and āķis ultimately a borrowing from either Middle Low German hake or Middle Dutch haeck.^[3]

Dzintra Hirša notes that connecting the name with fishing hooks is a folk etymology and that the name is derived from an alternate sense of āķis from a similar alternative sense of its ultimate source – the Low German hake – "cape; shoal, sandbank."^[4]

References

^ "Ūdens temperatūra jūrā pie Rīgas +18 grādu, upēs - līdz +24 grādiem" (in Latvian). 22 June 2013. Retrieved November 22, 2013.
^ Arbusow, Leonid (1914). "Illustrierter Führer durch den rigaschen Strand, Kemmern, Tuckum, Bad Magnushof (Wezaken), Neubad, Pabbasch, Peterskapelle, sowie deren Umgebung: Mit einer historischen Einleitung".
^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992). Latviešu etimoloģijas vārdnīca. Rīga: Avots. ISBN 5401004117.
^ Dzintra Hirša, Lībieši un lībiešu izcelsmes vietvārdi Latvijā in Kersti Boiko's Lībieši – rakstu krājums, page 215