lig
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English liggen, from Old English licgan (“to lie, be situated, be at rest, remain”) and Old Norse liggja (“to lie”). More at lie.
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lig (third-person singular simple present ligs, present participle ligging, simple past ligged or lag or lay, past participle ligged or laggen or lain)
- (intransitive, UK dialectal, obsolete) To lie; be in a prostrate or recumbent position.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- His limbes would rest, ne lig in ease embost
- (transitive, UK dialectal, obsolete) To lay.
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lig (plural ligs)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A lie; an untruth.
- 1867, James Torrington Spencer Lidstone, The Fourteenth Londoniad, page 85:
- And the Muse of Arts that never told a lig, / Whirls in her mid-air flight to sing of Twigg; […]
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- (untruth): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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Afrikaans edit
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Etymology 1 edit
From Dutch licht, from Proto-Germanic *linhtaz.
Adjective edit
lig (attributive ligte, comparative ligter, superlative ligste)
- (of weight) light; not heavy
- Die tas is lig.
- The suitcase is light.
- (figurative) slight; mild
- Daar het 'n ligte wind gewaai.
- A slight wind was blowing.
Etymology 2 edit
From Dutch lichten, derived from etymology 1.
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lig (present lig, present participle ligtende, past participle gelig)
- (transitive) to lift, to raise
- (transitive) to weigh (the anchor)
Etymology 3 edit
From Dutch licht, from Proto-Germanic *leuhtą (noun) and *leuhtaz (adjective).
Noun edit
lig (plural ligte)
- light
- Blou lig het die kortste golflengte van die primêre kleure.
- Blue light has the shortest wavelength among primary colours.
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lig (attributive ligte, comparative ligter, superlative ligste)
Etymology 4 edit
From Dutch lichten, from Proto-Germanic *liuhtijaną, derived from etymology 3.
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lig (present lig, present participle ligtende, past participle gelig)
- to shine; to be or become light
- Supernova's is geweldig ligtende uitbarstings van massiewe sterre.
- Supernovas are immensely shining explosions of massive stars.
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Albanian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Albanian *liga, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ligos (“indigent, needy, ill”). Cognate to Ancient Greek ὀλίγος (olígos, “small, little”), Lithuanian ligà (“illness”), Old Irish líach (“wretched”).
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i lig (feminine e ligë, masculine plural të lig, feminine plural të liga)
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lig f
Danish edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse líkr, glíkr, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz, cognate with English alike, like, German gleich, Dutch gelijk. A compound of *ga- (“co-”) + *-līkaz (“-like”).
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lig (neuter ligt or lig, plural and definite singular attributive lig)
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- “lig,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Norse lík (“body”), from Proto-Germanic *līką, cognate with English lich, German Leiche, Dutch lijk.
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lig n (singular definite liget, plural indefinite lig)
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- “lig,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 3 edit
From Old Norse lík (“leech”), borrowed from Middle Low German līk, from Proto-Germanic *līką (“bolt-rope”), cognate with Dutch lijk and English leech. The noun belongs to the Proto-Indo-European root *leyǵ- (“to bind”), compare Latin ligō (“to tie”).
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lig n (singular definite liget, plural indefinite lig)
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Etymology 4 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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lig
- imperative of ligge
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lig
- inflection of liggen:
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Etymology edit
From earlier léig, from Old Irish léicid, from Proto-Celtic *linkʷīti, from Proto-Indo-European *linékʷti, nasal-infix present of *leykʷ- (“to leave”). Cognate with Sanskrit रिणक्ति (riṇákti), Latin linquō, Ancient Greek λείπω (leípō), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍈𐌰𐌽 (leiƕan), Lithuanian lìkti.
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lig (present analytic ligeann, future analytic ligfidh, verbal noun ligean, past participle ligthe)
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* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
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Further reading edit
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “léicid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “leigim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 431
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lig”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “lig”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “lig”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Maguindanao edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Austronesian *liqeʀ.
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lig
Maranao edit
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lig
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Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *laugi, from Proto-Germanic *laugiz (“fire, flame, lightning”), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“light; white; to shine”). Cognate with Old High German loug, Old Norse lǫygr, log, loga (“flame, low”). More at low.
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līġ m (nominative plural līgas)
- fire; flame
- līġbǣre ― flaming
- līġcwalu ― fiery torment
- līġdraca ― fiery dragon
- līġræscetung ― lightning
- līġȳþ ― wave of fire
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lig f
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lig (definite accusative ligi, plural ligler)
- league (organization of sports teams)
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Inflection | ||
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Nominative | lig | |
Definite accusative | ligi | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | lig | ligler |
Definite accusative | ligi | ligleri |
Dative | lige | liglere |
Locative | ligde | liglerde |
Ablative | ligden | liglerden |
Genitive | ligin | liglerin |
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