kaggi

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse kaggi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰacːɪ/
  • Rhymes: -acːɪ

Noun

kaggi m (genitive singular kagga, nominative plural kaggar)

1. keg, cask, small barrel

Declension

Declension of kaggi (masculine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kaggi	kagginn	kaggar	kaggarnir
accusative	kagga	kaggann	kagga	kaggana
dative	kagga	kagganum	köggum	köggunum
genitive	kagga	kaggans	kagga	kagganna

Synonyms

• kútur

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• kakki, kaggr

Etymology

From the Germanic base *kagô (“bush, branch, stalk, stump”), also found in dialectal German Kag (“cabbage stalk, stump”), Swedish kage (“treestump”) +‎ -gi (diminutive suffix). Compare Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze, gorse”), whence English chag (“branch”). The ultimate origin could be related to English cog, or Old English cæg.

Noun

kaggi m

1. keg, cask
2. basin

Descendants

• Icelandic: kaggi m
• Swedish: kagge c
• → Middle English: *kagge, kag
  • English: keg, cag
  • Scots: cag, caig
• → Old French: caque
  • Middle French: kaque, quaque
    • French: caque

References

• “kaggi”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic‎^[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press