lige

English

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Etymology

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Verb

lige (third-person singular simple present liges, present participle liging, simple past and past participle liged)

1. (obsolete) To lie; to tell lies.

Anagrams

• Egli, Geil, Gile, Lieg, glei

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ,

Etymology 1

From Old Norse líki, from Proto-Germanic *galīkô, cognate with Old English ġelīca (English like) and Old High German gilīhho (German seinesgleichen). Definite form of the adjective *galīkaz (“same, like”).

Noun

lige (uninflected)

1. like, match

Etymology 2

Originally the definite form of lig.

Adjective

lige (uninflected)

1. straight, not bent
2. equal
3. (mathematics, of an integer) even (being of the form ${\displaystyle 2n}$, where ${\displaystyle n}$ is an integer)
4. (mathematics, of a function) even (such that ${\displaystyle f(x)=f(-x)}$)

Coordinate terms

• ulige

Etymology 3

From Old Norse líka, from Proto-Germanic *galīkê, cognate with English like, German gleich. Adverb from the adjective Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“same, like”), see lig.

Adverb

lige

1. just, recently
2. just, merely, simply
3. just, exactly

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liʒ/

• Audio

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Adjective

lige (plural liges)

1. liege

Further reading

• “lige”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

lige

1. present subjunctive analytic of lig

Old French

Alternative forms

• liege

Etymology

Disputed; thought to be of Germanic origin. See English liege.

Noun

lige oblique singular, m (oblique plural liges, nominative singular liges, nominative plural lige)

1. liege; liegeman; vassal

Derived terms

• lijance

Descendants

• → Middle English: lege, leege, legge, legi, leyge, liage, liege, lyege, lyge
  • English: liege
  • Scots: liege

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈ʲiɣʲe/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *legyom, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie (down)”).

Noun

lige n

1. verbal noun of laigid
2. lying down, reclining, sleeping
   • c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 85, pages 115-179:

     Nicon fordamar suide nó ligi do fir díob con·gabsat an deorad iterum.

     did not allow them to sit or lie down unless they receive the stranger again.

3. bed, couch
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55^c19

     Cid in tan no·mbíth inna ligiu, ba ac imrádud chloíne no·bíth.

     Even when he used to be in his bed, he used to be meditating iniquity.

4. (figuratively) grave

Inflection

Synonyms

• (bed): dérgud, imdae, lepaid, sceng

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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Noun

lige f

1. verbal noun of ligid
2. licking

Inflection

Mutation

Turkish

Noun

lige

1. dative singular of lig