Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/lagjaz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

Of unclear origin:

Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *lihwizô, *ligwizô (“thigh; groin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lekʷs-, *lewks- (“groin”).^[1]
Possibly from a root meaning "to bend," shared with Latin lacertus (“the arm”). ^[2]
Possibly related to *lagjaną (“to place, lay”).

Noun

*lagjaz m

leg, thigh

Inflection

masculine ja-stemDeclension of *lagjaz (masculine ja-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*lagjaz	lagjōz, lagjōs
vocative	*lagi	lagjōz, lagjōs
accusative	*lagją	*lagjanz
genitive	lagjas, lagis	*lagjǫ̂
dative	*lagjai	*lagjamaz
instrumental	*lagjō	*lagjamiz

Descendants

Lombardic: lagi
Old Norse: leggr
- Icelandic: leggur
- Faroese: leggur
- Norwegian:
  - Norwegian Bokmål: legg
  - Norwegian Nynorsk: legg
- Old Swedish: lægger
  - Swedish: lägg
- Danish: læg
- → Middle English: leg, legge, leggue, leige, lige
  - English: leg
    - → Finnish: legi
    - → Hungarian: leg
  - Scots: leg

References

^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “lagja”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 321-22
^ Buck, Carl Darling, A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages, University of Chicago, 1949, reprinted 1988.

[1] Guus Kroonen (2013) “lagja”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 321-22

[2] Buck, Carl Darling, A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages, University of Chicago, 1949, reprinted 1988.

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