jeg

English

Noun

jeg (plural jegs)

1. (machinery) Alternative form of jig

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ek, Old East Norse jak, from Proto-Germanic *ek, *ik (“I”), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂, *eǵh₂óm.

Alternative forms

• a, æ, ja, jæ (dialectal)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -aj

Pronoun

jeg (accusative mig, possessive min)

1. (personal) I

Usage notes

Frequently omitted in informal, written contexts, such as text messaging, memoranda and profiles.

See also

Etymology 2

From the pronoun. Calque of German Ich (“ego”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

jeg n (singular definite jeget, plural indefinite jeger)

1. self (an individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness)
2. (psychology) I, ego
3. (literature) first-person narrator

Inflection

Synonyms

• (literature): jegfortæller

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jeː/
• Rhymes: -eː

Pronoun

jeg

1. (Suðuroy) I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

Synonyms

• eg (standard Faroese)

Icelandic

Pronoun

jeg

1. Archaic form of ég.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Danish jeg, from Old Norse ek (Old East Norse jek). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jæɪ̯/

• Audio

  (file)

• (Fredrikstad) IPA^(key): (stressed) , (unstressed)

Pronoun

jeg

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

See also

References

• “jeg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• jig
• жег (jeg) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic жєгъ (žegŭ), from Proto-Slavic *žegъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʒeɡ/
• Rhymes: -eɡ

Noun

jeg n (plural jeguri)

1. dirt, filth

   Synonyms: murdărie, mizerie

Declension

Derived terms

• jegos