læg
Danish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse leggr, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz (“leg, thigh”). English leg is borrowed from Old Norse.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]læg c (singular definite læggen, plural indefinite lægge)
Inflection
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verbal noun from lægge (“to lay”), compare Norwegian legg and Swedish lägg.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]læg n (singular definite lægget, plural indefinite læg)
Etymology 3
[edit]From Old Norse leikr, from Middle Low German lek, from Latin lāicus (“lay, layman”), from Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós, “of the people”), from λαός (laós, “people”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]læg (neuter lægt, plural and definite singular attributive læge)
- lay (non-professional, non-clergy)
Inflection
[edit]positive | comparative | superlative | |
---|---|---|---|
indefinite common singular | læg | — | —2 |
indefinite neuter singular | lægt | — | —2 |
plural | læge | — | —2 |
definite attributive1 | læge | — | — |
1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 4
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]læg
- imperative of lægge
Etymology 5
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]læg
- imperative of læge
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Verb
[edit]læg
- imperative of lægje
Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]læġ
- Danish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish common-gender nouns
- da:Anatomy
- Danish neuter nouns
- Danish terms derived from Middle Low German
- Danish terms derived from Latin
- Danish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Danish adjectives
- Danish terms with homophones
- Danish non-lemma forms
- Danish verb forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk verb forms
- Old English non-lemma forms
- Old English verb forms