ragg

Swedish

Etymology

Same as Danish rag, Icelandic rogg, Norwegian ragg, Old English adjective raggig and English noun rag, all based on an Indoeuropean root ru ("to rip, tear"), Icelandic rýja (“to rip the wool from sheep, to shear”), Latin ruo (“to rip, dig”) and rutrum (“a shovel”). In older times, wool was not cut or shorn from sheep, but ripped or torn off.

Noun

ragg c

1. coarse fur, bristles (hair of an animal, especially unordered, wild, rugged, shaggy hair)

   resa ragg (also: resa borst, ragga till)

   to bristle

Declension

Declension of ragg

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	ragg	raggen
genitive	raggs	raggens

Related terms

• raggen
• raggig
• raggmunk
• raggsocka

See also

• ragga
• raggare

References

• ragg in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)