rugge

From Old Dutch ruggi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz.

rugge m

1. back

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• ricke
• rigge

• Dutch: rug
  • Afrikaans: rug
• Limburgish: rögk
• West Flemish: rik, rugge

• “rucghe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “rugge (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old Norse rugga

rugge (imperative rugg, present tense rugger, passive rugges, simple past and past participle rugga or rugget, present participle ruggende)

1. to move, (cause something to) budge
2. to rock (move to and fro)

• “rugge” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “rugge_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Old Norse rugga

rugge (present tense ruggar, past tense rugga, past participle rugga, passive infinitive ruggast, present participle ruggande, imperative rugg/rugge)

1. to move, (cause something to) budge
2. to rock (move to and fro)

• rugga

• “rugge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.