lóg

From Danish lov, from Old Norse lǫg, from Proto-Germanic *lagą (“law”).

• IPA^(key): /lɔuːw/
• Rhymes: -ɔuːw

lóg f (genitive singular lógar, plural lógir)

1. law

• løg-

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *loŋe- (“to throw, push away”) + -g (frequentative suffix).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: lóg
• Rhymes: -oːɡ

lóg

1. (intransitive) to hang (followed by -ról/-ről or -n/-on/-en/-ön) (to be or remain suspended)

   Egy hinta lógott a fáról. ― There was a swing hanging from the tree.

   A lapát ott lógott a szögön. ― The shovel was hanging from a nail.

2. (intransitive) to play truant, play hooky (to miss school, work, etc. without suitable permission or excuse)
3. (intransitive, slang) to hang out (with someone -val/-vel) (to spend time doing nothing in particular)

   Most is a fiúkkal lóg. ― He is hanging out with the boys.

(With verbal prefixes):

• lóg in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• gól

• lúag

From Proto-Celtic *lougos, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“benefit, prize”). The nature of the suffix and the ablaut grade of the base are unclear.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /l͈oːɣ/

lóg n (genitive lóge)

1. value, equivalent, worth
2. reward, requital, compensation, payment, price
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10^d23

     Mad ar lóg pridcha-sa, .i. ar m’étiuth et mo thoschith, ním·bia fochricc dar hési mo precepte.

     If I preach for pay, that is, for my clothing and my sustenance, I shall not have a reward for my teaching.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10^d26

     massu thol atom·aig dó; manid ar lóg

     if it is desire that drives me to it; if it is not for pay

The paradigm did not contain any palatalisation of disyllabic forms. This was due to the presence of a non-coronal consonant preceded by a rounded vowel, which blocked the first palatalization.

• lógmar

• folud (“wealth”)

• Middle Irish: lúach, lúag
  • Irish: luach
  • Scottish Gaelic: luach

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lóg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*ufo-lawto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 398