dœg

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *dōgi, from z-stem Proto-Germanic *dōgaz, whence also Old English dōgor. Related to Old Norse dǿgr. See also siġe, sigor; hǣl, hālor; sele, salor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /døːj/

Noun

dœ̄ġ m (Northumbrian)

1. day, as in a 24-hour period of the calendar

   Synonym: dæġ

Declension

Strong i-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	dœ̄ġ	dœ̄ġas
accusative	dœ̄ġ	dœ̄ġas
genitive	dœ̄ġes	dœ̄ġa
dative	dœ̄ġe	dœ̄ġum

References

• Joseph Wright, Mary Elizabeth Wright (1908) Old English Grammar‎^[1], London, New York and Toronto: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, §419
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “dœ́g”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.