From Plak, older form of Plack (“layer, piece, patch”) + -eg, thus originally “patchy, scarcely haired”. Likely influenced by the unrelated word at hand in Ripuarian bläck (“bare”), which see. Some Moselle Franconian dialects show the hybrid form blakig.
plakeg (masculine plakegen, neuter plakegt, comparative méi plakeg, superlative am plakegsten)
number and gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | hien ass plakeg | si ass plakeg | et ass plakeg | si si(nn) plakeg | |
nominative / accusative |
attributive and/or after determiner | plakegen | plakeg | plakegt | plakeg |
independent without determiner | plakeges | plakeger | |||
dative | after any declined word | plakegen | plakeger | plakegen | plakegen |
as first declined word | plakegem | plakegem |