deg

• IPA^(key): /dɛɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Abbreviations

deg (countable and uncountable, plural degs)

1. (mathematics, countable) Abbreviation of degree.
2. (motor racing, uncountable) Clipping of degradation.

deg (third-person singular simple present degs, present participle degging, simple past and past participle degged)

1. (Northern England, dialectal) To sprinkle, moisten.
   • 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published , London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 53:

     Degged with dew, dappled with dew / Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, / Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, / And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.

• EDG, EGD, GED, Ged, egd, ged

From Proto-Brythonic *deg, from Proto-Celtic *dekam, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

deg

1. ten

deg

1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of degt
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of degt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of degt

From Persian دیگ (dig, “cooking pot”).

• IPA^(key): ,

deg

1. large cooking pot

• degti

• IPA^(key): /dæj/
• Homophone: deig
• Rhymes: -æj

deg

1. (personal) thee, you; object form of du
2. (also deg selv) yourself

From Old Norse þik.

• IPA^(key): /deːɡ/

deg

1. objective case of du

• “deg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /dej/

deġ m (Mercian, Kentish)

1. Alternative form of dæġ

deg f

1. ear

From Old Swedish dēgher, from Old Norse deig, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, to mold, to form”).

Compare Norwegian Bokmål deig, Norwegian Nynorsk deig, Icelandic deig, Faroese deiggj, Danish dej.

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• IPA^(key): /deːɡ/

deg c

1. dough; a thick mix of flour and water
2. (uncountable, slang) dough (money)

• digna

• smet

• deg in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• deg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• deg in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• IPA^(key): /deɡ/

deg

1. ten
   • 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 19:

     Hifeilan at dalabom jevodis tel e kunis deg.

     This farmer owns two horses and ten cows.

• bals (obsolete, Original Volapük)

• degid

• IPA^(key): /deːɡ/
• Rhymes: -eːɡ

From Middle Welsh deg, from Proto-Brythonic *deg, from Proto-Celtic *dekam, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

• deng

deg

1. (cardinal number) ten

deg m (plural degau)

1. ten

• decplyg (“tenfold”)
• degfed (“tenth”)
• degol (“decimal”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “deg”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

deg

1. Soft mutation of teg.