licham
The human body, especially when living.
obsolete, rare
Believe not your licham, for a liar teaches him Which is the wretched world that wishes to betray you.
[…] Nor a living for your licham that lief is to your soul.
Where it comes from
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”).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry licham (CC BY-SA 4.0).