dag
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dæɡ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -æɡ
Etymology 1
From Middle English dagge, of uncertain (probably Germanic) origin, cognate with (Middle) Dutch dag, dagge, dagh. The sense "dangling lock of wool, matted with dung" is also termed "daglock" (derived from the "hanging end" sense of "dag") or "daggle-lock" and some sources consider the sense a shortening of that longer word rather than a mere evolution of the "hanging end" sense.
Noun
dag (plural dags)
- A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
- A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
- Wedgwood
- Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail.
- 1998, Wool: Volume 8, Issue 10, as published by the Massey Wool Association:
- He was one of the first significant private buyers of wool in New Zealand, playing a major part in bringing respectability to what at first was a very diverse group. He pioneered the pelletising of dag waste.
- 1999, G. C. Waghorn, N. G. Gregory, S. E. Todd, and R. Wesselink, Dags in sheep; a look at faeces and reasons for dag formation, published in the Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association 61, on pages 43–49:
- The development of dags first requires some faeces to adhere to wool, but this is only the initial step in accumulation.
- 2004, Mette Vaarst, Animal health and welfare in organic agriculture, page 323:
- [...] and the use of tanniferous forages may affect faecal consistency, reducing the formation of dag (faeces-coated wool).
- 2006, in the compilation of the Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, volume 46, issues 1-5, published by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia), on page 7:
- [Researchers] note that free pellets are characteristic of healthy sheep and that if sheep consistently produced free pellets, wool staining and dag formation would not occur.
- Wedgwood
Derived terms
Verb
dag (third-person singular simple present dags, present participle dagging, simple past and past participle dagged)
- To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
- 2007, Graeme R. Quick, Remarkable Australian Farm Machines: Ingenuity on the Land,
- Blade shearers could shear, crutch, mules or dag sheep anywhere they were needed.
- 2010 January 29, Emma Partridge, Stock Journal, Richie Foster a cut above the rest,
- After learning how to crutch at 13, he could dag 400 sheep in a day by the spring of 1965 and earned himself more than just a bit of pocket money.
- 2007, Graeme R. Quick, Remarkable Australian Farm Machines: Ingenuity on the Land,
- To daggle or bemire.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
Etymology 2
From Old French dague (from Old Occitan dague, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *daca (“Dacian knife”), from the Roman province Dacia (roughly modern Romania); the ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix, as in poignard (“dagger”)); cognate with dagger.
Noun
dag (plural dags)
- A skewer.
- A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
- (obsolete) A dagger; a poniard.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A kind of large pistol.
- Foxe
- The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some.
- Grose
- A sort of pistol, called dag, was used about the same time as hand guns and harquebuts.
- Foxe
- The unbranched antler of a young deer.
Verb
dag (third-person singular simple present dags, present participle dagging, simple past and past participle dagged)
Etymology 3
Variation of dang. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Etymology 4
Back-formation from daggy.
Noun
dag (plural dags)
- (Australia slang, New Zealand derogatory ) One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance.
- 2004 July 25, Debbie Kruger, Melbourne Weekly Magazine, All the World's a Stage,
- Now, wide-eyed and unfashionably excited ("I’m such a dag!" she remarks several times), she has the leading role of Viola in the Bell Shakespeare Company’s production of Twelfth Night, opening on August 10 at the Victorian Arts Centre Playhouse.
- 2006 September 26, TV Week, Klancie Keough eliminated,
- What did you think about Mark calling you a dag?
- To me a dag is a person who doesn't have a lot of pride in their appearance or the way they present themselves — the way they sing and how they hold themselves basically. But it didn't really bother me. He said, "You're such a dag, you're cool." I took it as "you're a laidback person". The way they cut it and edited it made it sound on TV like I was grumpy about it, but I wasn't. It was pretty funny how it came across.
- 2009 November 14, Daily Telegraph, Catherine Zeta - Hollywood's biggest dag?,
- SHE is one of Hollywood's most beautiful leading ladies and has access to any fashion designers, so then why is Catherine Zeta-Jones dressing like a bag lady?
- 2010 January 15, Michael Dwyer, The Age, Talented dag plucks up the cool,
- A graduate of film studies in New York, May has had a hand in editing two of his three videos. Each casts him as a bespectacled dag in a world of glamour.
- 2004 July 25, Debbie Kruger, Melbourne Weekly Magazine, All the World's a Stage,
Usage notes
- May be used as form of endearment, perhaps with the intention of indicating fellowship or sympathy with regard to apparent rejection of societal norms.
Related terms
- daggy (adj)
Etymology 5
Initialism for directed acyclic graph.
Noun
dag (plural dags)
- (graph theory) A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair such that is a subset of some partial ordering relation on .
Etymology 6
Of North Germanic origin; compare Swedish dagg. See dew.
Verb
dag (third-person singular simple present dags, present participle dagging, simple past and past participle dagged)
Noun
dag (plural dags)
- (chiefly Ireland) Eye dialect spelling of dog.
- 2000, Guy Ritchie, Snatch, quoted in, Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino, Translation and Localisation in Video Games: Making Entertainment Software Global, Routledge →ISBN, page 68:
- Mickey: Dags! D' ya like dags?
- 2014, John P Brady, Back to the Gaff, Roadside Fiction →ISBN, page 131:
- There it was again, that old Gaelic verb pronounced 'scriss,' that those involved in fighting talk apparently exuded on occasion. It could have been 'D'ya wanna buy a dag?' it was all the same.
- 2000, Guy Ritchie, Snatch, quoted in, Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino, Translation and Localisation in Video Games: Making Entertainment Software Global, Routledge →ISBN, page 68:
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /daχ/
Etymology 1
From Dutch dag (“day”), from Middle Dutch dach, from Old Dutch dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”). Cognate with German Tag.
Etymology 2
From Dutch dag, shortening of goedendag (“goodday; goodbye”), from goed (“goed, pleasant”) + dag (“day”).
Alternative forms
Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish dagh, from Old Norse dagr, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d̥æː/
- Rhymes: -æː
Declension
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɑx/
audio (Netherlands) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑx
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch dach, from Old Dutch dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”). Cognate with German Tag, West Frisian dei, English day, Danish dag.
Noun
Usage notes
- In archaic or dialectal usage, the older plural form daag may occur after numerals. On rare occasions the expression veertien daag (“a fortnight”) is still found in contemporary standard Dutch.
Synonyms
- (24 hours) etmaal n
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: dag
Interjection
dag!
Synonyms
Etymology 2
Unknown
Noun
Synonyms
- (punitive rope): dagtouwtje n
Derived terms
- handdag
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛaː/
- Rhymes: -ɛaː
Gothic
Icelandic
Indonesian
Middle Low German
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse dagr, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɑːɡ/
Derived terms
- aksjonsdag
- allehelgensdag
- bryllupsdag
- dagbok
- dagdrøm
- daglig
- dagsaktuell
- dagsavis
- dagslys
- dagslønn
- dagstur
- dagtid
- for en herlig dag!
- fridag
- fødselsdag
- gammeldags
- god dag
- gratulerer med dagen
- gripe dagen
- gårsdag
- hviledag
- høstdag
- i dag
- juledag
- merkedag
- middag
- morsdag
- nasjonaldag
- nyttårsdag
- påskedag
- Rom ble ikke bygget på en dag
- rød dag
- sommerdag
- tjuendedag
- valgdag
- årsdag
Related terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse dagr, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”). Akin to English day.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɑːɡ/
Derived terms
Related terms
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”).
Inflection
Old English
Old Norse
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /daɣ/
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish dagher, from Old Norse dagr, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɑː(ɡ)/
audio (file)
Declension
Declension of dag | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | dag | dagen | dagar | dagarna |
Genitive | dags | dagens | dagars | dagarnas |
Derived terms
- alla helgons dag
- allhelgonadag
- annandag
- arbetsdag
- avflyttningsdag
- avresedag
- barnens dag
- bäst före-dag
- Dag
- daga
- dagakarl
- dagarvode
- dagas
- dagavdelning
- dagbarn
- dagbefäl
- dagblad
- dagbok
- dagbrott
- dagbrytning
- dagbräckning
- dagcenter
- dagcentral
- dagcentrum
- dagdrivare
- dagdriveri
- dagdröm
- dagdrömma
- dagdrömmare
- dagdrömmeri
- dagen-efter-piller
- dagen-efter-stämning
- dager
- dagersättning
- dagfjäril
- dagförbindelse
- daghem
- daghotell
- dagis
- dagjämning
- dagkirurgi
- dagkirurgisk
- dagledig
- daglig
- dagligen
- dagligvara
- daglilja
- daglinne
- daglön
- daglönare
- dagmamma
- dagning
- dagofficer
- dagorder
- dagordning
- dagort
- dagpappa
- dagpatient
- dagpenning
- dagpersonal
- dagrapport
- dagresa
- dagrum
- dags
- dagsaktualiteter
- dagsaktuell
- dagsarbete
- dagsbehov
- dagsbot
- dagsedel
- dagsens
- dagsetapp
- dagsform
- dagsfärsk
- dagsförtjänst
- dagsgammal
- dagsgenomsnitt
- dagshändelser
- dagsinkomst
- dagsjukvård
- dagskassa
- dagskift
- dagsklar
- dagskonsumtion
- dagskrönika
- dagskurs
- dagsled
- dagsljus
- dagsläge
- dagslända
- dagslång
- dagslön
- dagsmarsch
- dagsmeja
- dagsnotering
- dagsnyheter
- dagspenning
- dagspolitik
- dagspolitisk
- dagspress
- dagspris
- dagsprogram
- dagsranson
- dagsregn
- dagsresa
- dagsrutin
- dagsschema
- dagssituation
- dagstemperatur
- dagstidning
- dagstur
- dagsutflykt
- dagsverkare
- dagsverke
- dagsvers
- dagsvärde
- dagsvärme
- dagtaxa
- dagteckna
- dagtid
- dagtinga
- dagtingan
- dagtraktamente
- dagtåg
- dagvatten
- dagvill
- dagvisa
- dagvård
- dagöppning
- dygn
- dödsdag
- festdag
- fredag
- fridag
- födelsedag
- förbrukningsdag
- goddag
- gårdag
- helgdag
- högtidsdag
- höstdag
- idag
- i dag
- jubileumsdag
- juldag
- kalenderdag
- lördag
- marknadsdag
- mellandag
- menlösa barns dag
- morgondag
- måndag
- namnsdag
- onsdag
- pingstdag
- påskdag
- regnvädersdag
- resdag
- skoldag
- skottdag
- sommardag
- söckendag
- söndag
- tisdag
- tjugondag
- torsdag
- trettondag
- tävlingsdag
- vardag
- vilodag
- vinterdag
- vårdag
Turkmen
Etymology
From Old Turkic tag, from Proto-Turkic *tāg, *dāg (“mountain”).
Volapük
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /daɡ/
Noun
dag (plural dags)
- darkness
- 1952, Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus‛, 8.11,12, translated by Arie de Jong.
- «Sagob oles, das mödikans okömoms se lofüd e se vesüd, ed olenseadons ko ‚Abraham‛, ‚Isaac‛ e ‚Iacob‛ in regän sülas;
- du sons regäna posejedoms ini dag plödikün; us odabinons viam e knir tutas».
- "I say to you, that many will come from the east and from the west, and they shall sit together with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;
- while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out in the outmost darkness; over there will be woeful crying and the gnashing of teeth."
- 1958, Johann Schmidt, "Viol", Volapükagased, no. 4, 18.
- Viol floron in jad e dag,
- A violet flowers in the shade and darkness,
- Viol floron in jad e dag,
- 1952, Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus‛, 8.11,12, translated by Arie de Jong.
West Flemish
Etymology
From Middle Dutch dach, from Old Dutch dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”).
White Hmong
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d̪a̤˧˩/
References
- Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)