kaggi

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Icelandic

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Old Norse kaggi.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

kaggi m (genitive singular kagga, nominative plural kaggar)

  1. keg, cask, small barrel

Declension

[edit]

Synonyms

[edit]

Old Norse

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From the Germanic base *kagô (bush, branch, stalk, stump), also found in dialectal German Kag (cabbage stalk, stump), Swedish kage (treestump) +‎ -gi (diminutive suffix).[1] Compare Old English ċeacga (broom, furze, gorse), whence English chag (branch). The ultimate origin could be related to English cog,[2] or Old English cæg.[3]

Noun

[edit]

kaggi m

  1. keg, cask
  2. basin

Descendants

[edit]
  • Icelandic: kaggi m
  • Swedish: kagge c
  • Middle English: *kagge, kag
  • Old French: caque

References

[edit]
  • 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
  1. ^ Liberman, A. (2009). Word Origins And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone. United States: Oxford University Press, p. 179
  2. ^ Columbia University Germanic Studies. (1900). United States: Columbia University Press, p. 35
  3. ^ An Analytic Dictionary of the English Etymology: An Introduction. (n.d.). United Kingdom: U of Minnesota Press, p. 128