dæg
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Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”). Cognate with Old High German tac (German Tag), Old Norse dagr (Swedish dag), Old Frisian dei, Old Saxon and Old Dutch dag (Dutch dag), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dæġ m
- day, both (usually) as a period from sunrise to sunset and (scientifically) as a 24-hour (tīd) period from sunrise to sunrise.
- 10th century, An Anglo-Saxon Manual of Astronomy:
- We hatað ænne dæg fram sunnan upgange oð æfen, ac swa þeah is on becum geteald to anum dæge fram þære sunnan upgange oð ꝥ heo eft becume þær heo ær upstah: on þam fæce synd getealde feower ⁊ twentig tida.
- We call one day from sun rise to evening, but yet in books there is reckoned to a day from the sun rise till she arrive again at the place whence she rose: in that space are reckoned twenty-four hours.
- We hatað ænne dæg fram sunnan upgange oð æfen, ac swa þeah is on becum geteald to anum dæge fram þære sunnan upgange oð ꝥ heo eft becume þær heo ær upstah: on þam fæce synd getealde feower ⁊ twentig tida.
- 10th century, An Anglo-Saxon Manual of Astronomy:
- the runic character ᛞ (/d/)
Declension[edit]
Declension of dæg (strong a-stem)
