jeg

jeg (plural jegs)

1. (machinery) Alternative form of jig

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

• a, æ, ja, jæ (dialectal)

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -aj

jeg (accusative mig, possessive min)

1. (personal) I

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

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

• IPA^(key):

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

• (literature): jegfortæller

• IPA^(key): /jeː/
• Rhymes: -eː

jeg

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

• eg (standard Faroese)

jeg

1. Archaic form of ég.

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

• IPA^(key): /jæɪ̯/

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

jeg

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

• “jeg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈʒeɡ/
• Rhymes: -eɡ

jeg n (plural jeguri)

1. dirt, filth

   Synonyms: murdărie, mizerie

• jegos