lagu

Dena'ina

Particle

lagu

1. I wonder

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Sanskrit

Noun

lagu

1. song

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Kedah Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laɡu/

Noun

lagu

1. song (used in other states as well)

   Hangpa nak biaq aku ghenggah soghang-soghang ja ka; lagu ni syok gak ni, mai nyanyi sama!

   Are you going to let me do all the singing; this song is quite good, come sing along!

Adverb

lagu

1. (in that/this) Way, manner, like (that/this)

   Huduh ngat aih hangpa dok jelan lidah lagu tu, seghupa ngan hantu pa aih!

   It is so ugly that you stick out your tongue like that, you looked like a ghost!

Derived terms

It is usually used as compund words as following:

• lagu mana (“how”)
• lagu tu (“like that”)
• lagu ni (“like this”)
• lagu dia (“like him”)
• lagu Ahmad (“like Ahmad”)

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑɣu/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *laguz (“water, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *lakw- (“lake, pond”). Cognate with Latin lacus (“hollow, pond”), Old Irish loch (“lake, pond”), Ancient Greek λάκκος (lákkos, “waterhole, pond, pit”).

Alternative forms

lago

Noun

lagu m

1. sea, water, lake
2. the runic character ᛚ (/l/)

Declension

Declension of lagu (strong u-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	lagu	laga
accusative	lagu	laga
genitive	laga	laga
dative	laga	lagum

Synonyms

• lacu
• sǣ
• mere

Derived terms

• lagucræftiġ

• lagustrǣt

Descendants

• Middle English: lai, laie, leye, laȝe, lawe
• English: lay

Etymology 2

Borrowed (ca. 1000 CE) from Old Norse lǫg (“the things that are laid down, the laws”), originally a neuter plural but reanalysed as a feminine singular when it was borrowed into Old English. From the singular Proto-Germanic *lagą (“something laid”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-, the root of English lie, lay.

The Old Icelandic word means "something laid down or fixed", both in the literal sense of "layer, stratum" and in the figurative "agreed share", "fixed price", "partnership", etc. The plural had the collective sense of "[body of] law". The native Old English word replaced by the Old Norse loan was ǣ.

Alternative forms

lage

Noun

lagu f

1. law, ordinance, rule, regulation; right, legal privilege

Declension

Declension of lagu (strong ō-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	lagu	laga, lage
accusative	lage	laga, lage
genitive	lage	laga
dative	lage	lagum

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Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin lacus (“lake”). Compare Aragonese laco, Catalan llac, Esperanto lago, French lac, Italian lago, Maltese lag, Portuguese lago, Romanian lac, Spanish lago.

Noun

lagu

1. lake