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Dena'ina
Particle
lagu
- I wonder
Indonesian
Pronunciation
Noun
lagu (first-person possessive laguku, second-person possessive lagumu, third-person possessive lagunya)
- song
- Synonym: gita
- rhythm, tone
- behavior
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Kabuverdianu
Etymology
From Portuguese lago. Cognate with Guinea-Bissau Creole lagua.
Noun
lagu
- lake
Kapampangan
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *laguq (“to flourish, of plants”). Also possibly from Sanskrit लघु (laghú, “well; healthy; pleasing; agreeable; handsome; beautiful”). Compare Pangasinan lago (“healthy; robust individual”) and Tagalog lago (“luxuriant growth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ləˈɡuʔ/ (noun)
- IPA(key): /ˈlaɡuʔ/ (verb)
- Hyphenation: la‧gu
Noun
lagû
- (originally figuratively) beauty (of a woman)
- (obsolete) tenderness; softness (like a green fruit or shoot of a plant)
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Verb
lágû
- to be beautiful
Kedah Malay
Pronunciation
Noun
lagu
- song (used in other states as well)
Hangpa nak biaq aku ghenggah soghang-soghang ja ka; lagu ni syok gak ni, mai nyanyi sama!- Are you going to let me do all the singing; this song is quite good, come sing along!
Adverb
lagu
- (in that/this) Way, manner, like (that/this)
Huduh ngat aih hangpa dok jelan lidah lagu tu, seghupa ngan hantu pa aih!- It is so ugly that you stick out your tongue like that, you looked like a ghost!
Derived terms
It is usually used as compound words as following:
- lagu mana (“how”)
- lagu tu (“like that”)
- lagu ni (“like this”)
- lagu dia (“like him”)
- lagu Ahmad (“like Ahmad”)
Malay
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lagu (“way, manner; melody”)
Noun
lagu (Jawi spelling لاݢو, plural lagu-lagu, informal 1st possessive laguku, 2nd possessive lagumu, 3rd possessive lagunya)
- song
Lagu yang berkumandang di radio itu, menenangkan diri saya.- The song that is played in the radio, calms me down.
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Old English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-West Germanic *lagu (“water, sea”).
Cognate with Latin lacus (“hollow, pond”), Old Irish loch (“lake, pond”), Ancient Greek λάκκος (lákkos, “waterhole, pond, pit”).
Noun
lagu m
- sea, water, lake
- the runic character ᛚ (/l/)
Declension
Declension of lagu (strong u-stem)
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Etymology 2
Borrowed (ca. 1000 C.E.) from Old Norse lǫg (“the things that are laid down, the laws”), originally a neuter plural but reanalysed as a feminine singular when it was borrowed into Old English. From the singular Proto-Germanic *lagą (“something laid”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-, the root of English lie, lay.
The Old Icelandic word means "something laid down or fixed", both in the literal sense of "layer, stratum" and in the figurative "agreed share", "fixed price", "partnership", etc. The plural had the collective sense of " law". The native Old English word replaced by the Old Norse loan was ǣ.
Noun
lagu f
- law
- rule
- right, legal privilege
Declension
Declension of lagu (strong ō-stem)
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Sardinian
Etymology
From Latin lacus (“lake”). Compare Aragonese laco, Catalan llac, French lac, Italian lago, Maltese lag, Portuguese lago, Romanian lac, Spanish lago.
Noun
lagu m (plural lagos)
- lake