zagt

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German

Pronunciation

Verb

zagt

  1. (deprecated template usage) Second-person plural present of zagen.
  2. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular present of zagen.
  3. (deprecated template usage) Imperative plural of zagen.

Latvian

Etymology

Usually derived from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 239: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "bat-pro" is not valid. See WT:LOL. *žangō (from Latvian *zuoguo, from the present tense form zogu), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰongʰ- (dirty). The semantic evolution was presumably from “to make dirty, to defile” to “to defile by stealing” to “to steal”. Cognates include Lithuanian žàgti, present form: žagiù (to make dirty, to steal), present form: žangù (to eat something forbidden, to steal); from the adjectival form *ǵʰogʰos (dirty), also Sanskrit जघन (jaghana, buttocks; shame), Ancient Greek κοχώνη (kokhṓnē, crotch). A more recent hypothesis relates zagt to Lithuanian žeñgti (to walk, to go), iterative form žangýti; the present tense form žangaũ would then correspond to Latvian zogu. This hypothesis would presumably explain better the meaning of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latvian reflexive form zagties (to sneak, to go without being noticed) (compare to Russian красть (krastʹ, to steal) и красться (krastʹsja, to walk, to go without being noticed)).[1]

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Verb

zagt (transitive or intransitive, 1st conjugation, present zogu, zodz, zog, past zagu)

  1. to steal (to take something without permission, against the law, often also secretly, unbeknownst to its owner)
    zagta mantastolen property
    lai iegūtu līdzekļus eksistēšanai, viņš gāja zagtin order to obtain the means of existing (= living), he went stealing
    es neesmu zadzis cita mantuI haven't stolen other people's property
  2. (figuratively) to steal (to obtain, to use secretly, without permission)
    jūs zogat skaistāko, kas cilvēkam vien var būt; jūs zogat sapņus, jus zogat nākotniyou steal the most beautiful (things) a person can have; you steal dreams, you steal the future
  3. (figuratively) to steal (to cause someone to lose something, to not be able to use or have something)
    rīt ārsti attālinās nāves varu, kas pāragri mums dzīves gadus zogtomorrow the doctors will push away the power of death, which has stolen life years prematurely from us

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References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “zagt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN