lig

From Middle English liggen, from Old English licgan (“to lie, be situated, be at rest, remain”) and Old Norse liggja (“to lie”). More at lie.

• IPA^(key): /lɪɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪɡ

lig (third-person singular simple present ligs, present participle ligging, simple past ligged or lag or lay, past participle ligged or laggen or lain)

1. (intransitive, Yorkshire, Cumbria, Teesdale) To lie; be in a prostrate or recumbent position.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     His limbes would rest, ne lig in ease embost

2. (transitive, Yorkshire, Cumbria, Teesdale) To lay.

• lig down
• lig on
• lig out

• ligger

lig (plural ligs)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A lie; an untruth.
   • 1867, James Torrington Spencer Lidstone, The Fourteenth Londoniad, page 85:

     And the Muse of Arts that never told a lig, / Whirls in her mid-air flight to sing of Twigg; […]

• (untruth): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

• GIL, Gil, IGL@, Ilg, LGI, gli-

• IPA^(key): /ləχ/

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From Dutch licht, from Proto-Germanic *linhtaz.

lig (attributive ligte, comparative ligter, superlative ligste)

1. (of weight) light; not heavy

   Die tas is lig.

   The suitcase is light.

2. (figurative) slight; mild

   Daar het 'n ligte wind gewaai.

   A slight wind was blowing.

From Dutch lichten, derived from etymology 1.

lig (present lig, present participle ligtende, past participle gelig)

1. (transitive) to lift, to raise
2. (transitive) to weigh (the anchor)

From Dutch licht, from Proto-Germanic *leuhtą (noun) and *leuhtaz (adjective).

lig (plural ligte)

1. light

   Blou lig het die kortste golflengte van die primêre kleure.

   Blue light has the shortest wavelength among primary colours.

lig (attributive ligte, comparative ligter, superlative ligste)

1. (of color or complexion) light; pale; not dark

   Hy dra 'n ligblou hemp.

   He wears a light blue shirt.

From Dutch lichten, from Proto-Germanic *liuhtijaną, derived from etymology 3.

lig (present lig, present participle ligtende, past participle gelig)

1. to shine; to be or become light

   Supernova's is geweldig ligtende uitbarstings van massiewe sterre.

   Supernovas are immensely shining explosions of massive stars.

• liggende

Inherited from Proto-Albanian *liga, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ligos (“indigent, needy, ill”). Cognate to Lithuanian ligà (“illness”), Old Irish líach (“wretched”).

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i lig (feminine e ligë, masculine plural të lig, feminine plural të liga)

1. evil, wicked
2. bad, nasty
3. ill, sick
4. weak, cowardly
5. (dialectal) pregnant, with child

• “lig”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

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lig f

1. genitive plural of liga

From Old Norse líkr, glíkr, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz, cognate with English alike, like, German gleich, Dutch gelijk. A compound of *ga- (“co-”) +‎ *-līkaz (“-like”).

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lig (neuter ligt or lig, plural and definite singular attributive lig)

1. equal to
2. like, similar to

• “lig,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse lík (“body”), from Proto-Germanic *līką, cognate with English lich, German Leiche, Dutch lijk.

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lig n (singular definite liget, plural indefinite lig)

1. body, corpse
2. crock (an old or broken-down vehicle)

• kadaver

• “lig,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse lík (“leech”), borrowed from Middle Low German līk, from Proto-Germanic *līką (“bolt-rope”), cognate with Dutch lijk and English leech. The noun belongs to the Proto-Indo-European root *leyǵ- (“to bind”), compare Latin ligō (“to tie”).

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lig n (singular definite liget, plural indefinite lig)

1. (nautical) leech

• “Lig,2” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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lig

1. imperative of ligge

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• Rhymes: -ɪx
• IPA^(key): /lɪx/

lig

1. inflection of liggen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• gil

• leig (superseded)
• léig (archaic)
• leog (Munster)

From earlier léig, from Old Irish léicid, from Proto-Celtic *linkʷīti, from Proto-Indo-European *linékʷti, nasal-infix present of *leykʷ- (“to leave”). Cognate with Sanskrit रिणक्ति (riṇákti), Latin linquō, Ancient Greek λείπω (leípō), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍈𐌰𐌽 (leiƕan), Lithuanian li̇̀kti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̠ʲɪɟ/

lig (present analytic ligeann, future analytic ligfidh, verbal noun ligean, past participle ligthe)

1. to let, allow

• ceadaigh
• lamháil
• leomh

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “léicid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “leigim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 431
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lig”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “lig”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “lig”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• li̇̀gi

Derived from lýgus (“flat, even, equal”); the shortening of the long *ī sound (the y in lýgus) is perhaps due to influence from the synonymous iki̇̀. Cognate with Latvian lidz (“like; till; as soon as, until”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /lʲɪɡ/

li̇̀g

1. (with genitive) to, till, until

From Proto-Austronesian *liqeʀ.

lig

1. (anatomy) neck

lig

1. (anatomy) neck

• lēġ, līeġ, lȳġ

From Proto-West Germanic *laugi, from Proto-Germanic *laugiz (“fire, flame, lightning”), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“light; white; to shine”). Cognate with Old High German loug, Old Norse lǫygr, log, loga (“flame, low”). More at low.

• IPA^(key): /liːj/

līġ m (nominative plural līgas)

1. fire; flame

   līġbǣre ― flaming

   līġcwalu ― fiery torment

   līġdraca ― fiery dragon

   līġræscetung ― lightning

   līġȳþ ― wave of fire

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: lye, lei, lyȝ

• IPA^(key): /ˈlik/
• Rhymes: -ik
• Syllabification: lig
• Homophone: lik

lig f

1. genitive plural of liga

From French ligue.

• IPA^(key): /liɟ/

lig (definite accusative ligi, plural ligler)

1. league (organization of sports teams)

lig

1. liquor

lig

1. (anatomy) neck