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Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish fikæ, Old Norse fíkja, ultimately from Latin fīcus (“fig fruit, fig tree”).
The German dialects have forms with -g-: Middle Low German vīge, German Feige, probably from Old French figue (whence also English fig. The Scandinavian form with -k- (cf. also Swedish fikon and Norwegian Bokmål fiken) may have come over Old English fīc. In Danish -k- becomes -g- regularly between vowels.
Pronunciation
Noun
figen c (singular definite figenen, plural indefinite figner or figener)
- fig (fruit)
Declension
References
West Frisian
Noun
figen
- plural of fiich