ragg

ragg (uncountable)

1. (archaic) ragstone

• Garg

From Old Norse rǫgg. Akin to English rag.

• IPA^(key): /rɑɡː/

ragg n (definite singular ragget, uncountable)

1. coarse fur, bristles (hair of an animal, especially unordered, wild, rugged, shaggy hair)

• raggete

• “ragg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse rǫgg, from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz (“coarse, rough”).

Same as Danish rag, Icelandic rogg, Norwegian ragg, Old English adjective raggig and English noun rag, Icelandic rýja (“to rip the wool from sheep, to shear”), Latin ruo (“to rip, dig”) and rutrum (“a shovel”). In older times, wool was not cut or shorn from sheep, but ripped or torn off.

ragg c

1. coarse fur, bristles (hair of an animal, especially unordered, wild, rugged, shaggy hair)

   resa ragg (also: resa borst, ragga till)

   to bristle

• raggen
• raggig
• raggmunk
• raggsocka

• ragga
• raggare

• ragg in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)