reg

See also: Reg, rég, -reg, and reg-

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviation.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĕj, rĕg, IPA^(key): /ɹɛdʒ/, /ɹɛɡ/

Noun

reg (plural regs)

1. (Internet slang) A regular.

   I've been going to that chat room for months, and I know most of the regs by now.

2. (informal) A regulation.
3. registrar
4. registration
5. registry

Etymology 2

From regolith

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĕg, IPA^(key): /ɹɛɡ/

Noun

reg (countable and uncountable, plural regs)

1. (geography) A hard surface of rock fragments set in a sandy matrix, found in some hot deserts; regolith, stony desert.
   • 1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus 1993, page 66:

     As I say for half a mile round the fort it is rutted gravel. We call this sort of gravelly stuff reg.

Synonyms

• (hard surface of rock in sand): hammada, serir, yardang, desert pavement

See also

• erg
• koum
• zeugen

Anagrams

• EGR, ERG, GER, GRE, Ger, Ger., Ger⁺⁶, erg, ger, gre

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch recht, from Middle Dutch recht, from Old Dutch reht, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz (adjective) and *rehtą (noun), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós.

Adjective

reg (attributive regte, comparative regter, superlative regste)

1. right
2. real; true; actual

Noun

reg (plural regte)

1. justice
2. right

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Amanab

Noun

reg

1. child

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Catalan

Noun

reg m (plural regs)

1. irrigation

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʀeːk/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

reg

1. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of regen.
2. (colloquial) (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of regen.

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛɡ]
• Hyphenation: reg

Noun

reg

1. (obsolete) morning

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• reggel
• rég
• rögtön

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈr͈ʲeɣ/

Verb

·reg

1. first-person singular future conjunct of téit

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
·reg also ·rreg	·reg pronounced with /-r(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rēx, rēgem (“king”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reɡ/, [ɾeɡ]

Noun

reg (nominative plural regs)

1. (male or female) royal monarch, king / queen

Declension

declension of reg

	singular	plural
nominative	reg	regs
genitive	rega	regas
dative	rege	reges
accusative	regi	regis
vocative 1	o reg!	o regs!
predicative 2	regu	regus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Hyponyms

• hireg
• jireg

Derived terms

• ad reg peleüledölan (leül, leülön, leüled, leüledön)
• davälareg
• dobareg
• gerareg
• lampör-reg
• Norgänareg
• regakur
• regakvil
• regam
• regasomun, Osmunda regalis
• regatigrid, Panthera tigris tigris
• regavat
• regän
• regiäl
• regik
• regiko
• regikön
• regil
• regisasen
• reg läna
• reg Norgäna
• rego
• regön
• reg Svedäna
• regükön
• regül
• Svedänareg

Related terms

• davälahireg
• davälajireg
• dobahireg
• dobajireg
• gerahireg
• gerajireg
• hilampör-hireg
• hiregapijun (cf. en: king pigeon (or simply king), de: Kingtaube)
• hiregän
• hiregänik
• hiregik
• hiregiko
• hirego
• hireg cögädom (cög, cögön, cögädön, cögan)
• hireg Norgäna
• hireg Svedäna
• hiregül
• jilampör-jireg
• jiregän
• jiregänik
• jiregik
• jiregiko
• jireg Norgäna
• jirego
• jireg Svedäna
• jiregül
• Norgänahireg
• Norgänajireg
• regänik
• regän Sikilänas tel
• regiälan
• regiälik
• regiälim
• regiäliman
• regiälimik
• regisasenan
• Svedänahireg
• Svedänajireg
• tareg
• vireg

See also

• guv
• guvan
• guveral
• guverön
• hilampör
• hizar
• jilampör
• jizar
• lampör
• reig
• reigan
• reigän
• reigön
• zar

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Welsh

Noun

reg

1. Soft mutation of rheg.