lige

See also: ligę

English

Verb

lige (third-person singular simple present liges, present participle liging, simple past and past participle liged)

1. (obsolete) To lie; to tell lies.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lige”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Egli, Geil, Gile, Lieg, glei

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈliːə], [ˈliːi]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse líki, from Proto-Germanic *galīkô, cognate with Old English ġelīca (English like) and Old High German gilīhho (German seinesgleichen). Definite form of the adjective *galīkaz (“same, like”).

Noun

lige (uninflected)

1. like, match

Etymology 2

Originally the definite form of lig.

Adjective

lige (uninflected)

1. straight, not bent
2. equal
3. (mathematics, of an integer) even (being of the form $2n$, where $n$ is an integer)
4. (mathematics, of a function) even (such that $f(x)=f(-x)$)

Coordinate terms

• ulige

Etymology 3

From Old Norse líka, from Proto-Germanic *galīkê, cognate with English like, German gleich. Adverb from the adjective Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“same, like”), see lig.

Adverb

lige

1. just, recently
2. just, merely, simply
3. just, exactly

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liʒ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

lige (plural liges)

1. liege

Further reading

• “lige”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈl̠ʲɪɟə]

Verb

lige

1. present subjunctive analytic of lig

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Old French

Alternative forms

• liege

Etymology

Disputed; thought to be of Germanic origin. See English liege.

Noun

lige oblique singular, m (oblique plural liges, nominative singular liges, nominative plural lige)

1. liege; liegeman; vassal

Derived terms

• lijance

Descendants

• → Middle English: lege, leege, legge, legi, leyge, liage, liege, lyege, lyge
  • English: liege
  • Scots: liege

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈ʲiɣʲe/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *legyom, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie (down)”).

Noun

lige n

1. verbal noun of laigid
2. lying down, reclining, sleeping
   • c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 85, pages 115-179:

     Nicon fordamar suide nó ligi do fir díob con·gabsat an deorad iterum.

     [Adamnan] did not allow them to sit or lie down unless they receive the stranger again.

3. bed, couch
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55^c19

     Cid in tan no·mbíth inna ligiu, ba ac imrádud chloíne no·bíth.

     Even when he used to be in his bed, he used to be meditating iniquity.

4. (figuratively) grave

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ligeN	ligeL	ligeL
Vocative	ligeN	ligeL	ligeL
Accusative	ligeN	ligeL	ligeL
Genitive	ligiL	ligeL	ligeN
Dative	ligiuL	ligib	ligib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• coiblige
• comluige
• freslige

 

Synonyms

• (bed): dérgud, imdae, lepaid, sceng

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lige f

1. verbal noun of ligid
2. licking

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ligeL	ligiL	ligi
Vocative	ligeL	ligiL	ligi
Accusative	ligiN	ligiL	ligi
Genitive	lige	ligeL	ligeN
Dative	ligiL	ligib	ligib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
lige also llige after a proclitic ending in a vowel	lige pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Turkish

Noun

lige

1. dative singular of lig