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kaggi

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse kaggi.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kaggi m (genitive singular kagga, nominative plural kaggar)

  1. keg, cask, small barrel

Declension

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    Declension of kaggi
m-w1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative kaggi kagginn kaggar kaggarnir
accusative kagga kaggann kagga kaggana
dative kagga kagganum köggum köggunum
genitive kagga kaggans kagga kagganna

Synonyms

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Old Norse

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From the Germanic base *kagô (“bush, branch, stalk, stump”), also found in dialectal German Kag (“cabbage stalk, stump”), Swedish kage (“treestump”) +‎ -gi (diminutive suffix).[1] Compare Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze, gorse”), whence English chag (“branch”). The ultimate origin could be related to English cog,[2] or Old English cæg.[3]

Noun

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kaggi m

  1. keg, cask
  2. basin

Descendants

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  • Icelandic: kaggi m
  • Swedish: kagge c
  • → Middle English: *kagge, kag
  • → Old French: caque

References

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  • “kaggi”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic‎[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press
  1. ^ Liberman, A. (2009). Word Origins And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone. United States: Oxford University Press, p. 179
  2. ^ Columbia University Germanic Studies. (1900). United States: Columbia University Press, p. 35
  3. ^ An Analytic Dictionary of the English Etymology: An Introduction. (n.d.). United Kingdom: U of Minnesota Press, p. 128
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