plakeg
Luxembourgish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Plak, older form of Plack (“layer, piece, patch”) + -eg, thus originally “patchy, scarcely haired”. Likely influenced by the unrelated word at hand in Ripuarian bläck (“bare”), which see. Some Moselle Franconian dialects show the hybrid form blakig.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]plakeg (masculine plakegen, neuter plakegt, comparative méi plakeg, superlative am plakegsten)
Declension
[edit]declension of plakeg
| number and gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | hien ass plakeg | si ass plakeg | et ass plakeg | si si(nn) plakeg | |
| nominative / accusative |
attributive and/or after determiner | plakegen | plakeg | plakegt | plakeg |
| independent without determiner | plakeges | plakeger | |||
| dative | after any declined word | plakegen | plakeger | plakegen | plakegen |
| as first declined word | plakegem | plakegem | |||