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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch eggen. Equivalent to eg +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛɣə(n)/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: eg‧gen
  • Rhymes: -ɛɣən

Verb

eggen

  1. (transitive, agriculture) to harrow

Inflection

Inflection of eggen (weak)
infinitive eggen
past singular egde
past participle geëgd
infinitive eggen
gerund eggen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular eg egde
2nd person sing. (jij) egt egde
2nd person sing. (u) egt egde
2nd person sing. (gij) egt egde
3rd person singular egt egde
plural eggen egden
subjunctive sing.1 egge egde
subjunctive plur.1 eggen egden
imperative sing. eg
imperative plur.1 egt
participles eggend geëgd
1) Archaic.

German

Etymology

From Middle High German egen, *ecken, from Old High German eggen, ekken, ultimately from the root of Ecke (corner, edge).

The modern consonantism -gg- instead of expected -ck- is most readily explained as Low German as some sources do, but this seems not generally accepted (compare Middle Low German eggen).

Pronunciation

Verb

eggen (weak, third-person singular present eggt, past tense eggte, past participle geeggt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to harrow

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • eggen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • eggen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • eggen” in Duden online
  • eggen” in OpenThesaurus.de

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Norse eggja, from egg (edge) (cognate to egge).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

eggen (third-person singular simple present eggeth, present participle eggende, eggynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle egged)

  1. To egg on; to encourage or provide motivation.
  2. To lure someone away; to entice.
  3. (rare) To anger; to draw someone's wrath.
  4. (rare) To insult or goad.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
  • English: egg
  • Scots: egg
References

Etymology 2

Verb

eggen

  1. Alternative form of heggen

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

eggen m or f

  1. definite masculine singular of egg (Etymology 2)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

eggen m

  1. definite singular of egg

Swedish

Noun

eggen

  1. definite singular of egg