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Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse kaggi.
Pronunciation
Noun
kaggi m (genitive singular kagga, nominative plural kaggar)
- keg, cask, small barrel
Declension
Declension of kaggi (masculine)
Synonyms
Old Norse
Etymology
From the Germanic base *kagô (“bush, branch, stalk, stump”), also found in dialectal German Kag (“cabbage stalk, stump”), Swedish kage (“treestump”) + -gi (diminutive suffix).[1] Compare Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze, gorse”), whence English chag (“branch”). The ultimate origin could be related to English cog,[2] or Old English cæg.[3]
Noun
kaggi m
- keg, cask
- basin
Descendants
References
- “kaggi”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ Liberman, A. (2009). Word Origins And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone. United States: Oxford University Press, p. 179
- ^ Columbia University Germanic Studies. (1900). United States: Columbia University Press, p. 35
- ^ An Analytic Dictionary of the English Etymology: An Introduction. (n.d.). United Kingdom: U of Minnesota Press, p. 128