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Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse tekt f (“safety”), cognate of Norwegian Bokmål -tekt and Swedish täkt. A noun derived from the verb Old Norse taka (“to take”), Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (“to touch”).
Pronunciation
Noun
-tægt c (singular definite -tægten, plural indefinite -tægter)
- taking (used only as the second part of compounds)
Derived terms
References
“Tægt” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog