deg
English
Verb
deg (third-person singular simple present degs, present participle degging, simple past and past participle degged)
- (Northern England, dialectal) To sprinkle, moisten.
- 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, OCLC 5093462, stanza 3, page 53:
- Degged with dew, dappled with dew / Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, / Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, / And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.
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Cornish
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *deg, from Proto-Celtic *dekam, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.
Latvian
Mauritian Creole
Pronunciation
- IPA: [deɡ], [dek]
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deːɡ/ (example of pronunciation)
See also
Nominative | Objective case | Genitive/Possessive pronoun | |
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Singular | |||
First person | eg, je1 | meg | min, mi, mitt, mine |
Second person | du | deg | din, di, ditt, dine |
Third person m | han | han, honom2 | hans |
Third person f | ho | ho, henne | hennar, hennes1 |
Third person n | det, dat3 | det, dat3 | dess 4 |
Plural | |||
First person | me, vi | oss | vår m |
Second person | de, dokker | dykk, dokker | dykkar, dokkar |
Third person | dei | dei, deim2 | deira, deires1 |
Notes | |||
1No longer part of the official written norm. These non-traditional forms were added to the norm to either approach the Samnorsk ideal or certain dialects. | |||
2Traditional forms that are no longer part of the official written norm. Now primarily used in Høgnorsk texts. | |||
3Never part of official Nynorsk/Landsmål. Primarily used before Landsmål received an official written norm. | |||
4Rare or literary |
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish degher, from Old Norse deig, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, to mold, to form”). Compare Norwegian Bokmål deig, Icelandic deig, Faroese deiggj, Danish dej.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deːɡ/
Volapük
< 9 | 10 | 11 > |
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Cardinal : deg Ordinal : degid | ||
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deɡ/
Welsh
< 9 | 10 | 11 > |
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Cardinal : deg Ordinal : degfed | ||
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deːɡ/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Brythonic *deg, from Proto-Celtic *dekam, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.
Alternative forms
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