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Middle English
- augeer, augere, augire, augour, augur, awgar, awger, navegar, navegore, naugar, nawger
Etymology
From Old English nafugār, from Proto-West Germanic *nabugaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *nabōgaizaz; equivalent to nave (“hub of a wheel”) + gor (“spear”).
Cognate with Old Saxon navugēr, Old High German nabagēr, Old Norse nafarr. Forms without initial n- are due to reanalysis of a nauger as an auger.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
nauger (plural naugers)
- auger (carpenter's tool)[2]
Descendants
References
- ^ Jordan, Richard (1974) Eugene Crook, transl., Handbook of the Middle English Grammar: Phonology (Janua Linguarum; 214), The Hague: Mouton & Co. N.V., →DOI, § 171, page 161.
- ^ “nauger, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.