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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *dōgi, from z-stem Proto-Germanic *dōgaz, whence also Old English dōgor. Related to Old Norse dǿgr. See also siġe, sigor; hǣl, hālor; sele, salor.
Pronunciation
Noun
dœ̄ġ m (Northumbrian)
- day, as in a 24-hour period of the calendar
- Synonym: dæġ
Declension
Strong i-stem:
References
- Joseph Wright, Mary Elizabeth Wright (1908) Old English Grammar, London, New York and Toronto: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, §419
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “dœ́g”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.