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Aiwoo
Noun
läge
- (anatomy) skin
References
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
German
Pronunciation
Verb
läge
- first/third-person singular subjunctive II of liegen
Swedish
Etymology
Related to ligga (“to lie”) and lägga (“to lay”), like German Lage.
Pronunciation
Noun
läge n
- a position (same location/orientation duality as in English), a location
Huset har ett bra läge- The house is in a good location
liggande läge- lying position
- a situation, a state
världsläget- the global situation
- an opportunity (from notion of an (implied good) situation)
Han är helt ensam med målvakten. Vilket läge!- He's completely alone with the goalie. What an opportunity!
- a (fishermen's) village
Usage notes
Idiomatic for something being in a good/bad/etc. location in (sense 1). Places more emphasis on the surroundings compared to position, in a similar way to "The house is in a good location" vs. "The house is in a good position."
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