kaggi

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse kaggi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰacːɪ/
  • Rhymes: -acːɪ

Noun

kaggi m (genitive singular kagga, nominative plural kaggar)

1. keg, cask, small barrel

Synonyms

• kútur

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• kakki, kaggr

Etymology

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

Noun

kaggi m

1. keg, cask
2. basin

Descendants

• Icelandic: kaggi m
• Swedish: kagge c
• → Middle English: *kagge, kag
  • English: keg, cag
  • Scots: cag, caig
• → Old French: caque
  • Middle French: kaque, quaque
    • French: caque

References

• “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