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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/lagjaz
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Of unclear origin:
- Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *lihwizô, *ligwizô (“thigh; groin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lekʷs-, *lewks- (“groin”).[1]
- Possibly from a root meaning "to bend," shared with Latin lacertus (“the arm”). [2]
- Possibly related to *lagjaną (“to place, lay”).
Noun
*lagjaz m
- leg, thigh
Inflection
| masculine ja-stemDeclension of *lagjaz (masculine ja-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | *lagjaz | *lagjōz, *lagjōs | |
| vocative | *lagi | *lagjōz, *lagjōs | |
| accusative | *lagją | *lagjanz | |
| genitive | *lagjas, *lagis | *lagjǫ̂ | |
| dative | *lagjai | *lagjamaz | |
| instrumental | *lagjō | *lagjamiz | |
Descendants
- Lombardic: lagi
- Old Norse: leggr
- Icelandic: leggur
- Faroese: leggur
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: legg
- Norwegian Nynorsk: legg
- Old Swedish: lægger
- Swedish: lägg
- Westrobothnian: lägg, läiddj
- Danish: læg
- → Middle English: leg, legge, leggue, leige, lige
- English: leg
- → Finnish: legi
- → Hungarian: leg
- Scots: leg
- English: leg
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “lagja”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 321-22
- Buck, Carl Darling, A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages, University of Chicago, 1949, reprinted 1988.