-tægt
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Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse tekt f (“safety”), cognate of Norwegian Bokmål -tekt and Swedish täkt. A noun derived from the verb Old Norse taka (“to take”), Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (“to touch”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]-tægt c (singular definite -tægten, plural indefinite -tægter)
- taking (used only as the second part of compounds)