hagga

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Afar[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /haɡˈɡa/, [hʌɡˈɡʌ]
  • Hyphenation: hag‧ga

Noun[edit]

haggá f 

  1. amazement

References[edit]

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 75

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Verb[edit]

hagga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative haggaði, supine haggað)

  1. (transitive, governs the dative) to budge
    Honum verður ekki haggað.
    He won't budge. (He won't be budged.)

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Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā (witch). Compare häxa (witch, hag), a German borrowing. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Which language was this borrowed from? No entry in SAOB.

Noun[edit]

hagga c

  1. (derogatory) an unpleasant (older) woman; a hag

Declension[edit]

Declension of hagga 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hagga haggan haggor haggorna
Genitive haggas haggans haggors haggornas

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