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reg

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See also: -reg, Reg, reg., reg-, and rég

English

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Etymology 1

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Clippings.

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reg (plural regs)

  1. (informal) A regular.
    I've been going to that chat room for months, and I know most of the regs by now.
  2. (informal) A regulation.
  3. registrar
  4. registration
    1. (informal, UK) Short for registration number.
    What's your reg?
  5. registry
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Etymology 2

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From regolith.

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reg (countable and uncountable, plural regs)

  1. (geography) A hard surface of rock fragments set in a sandy matrix, found in some hot deserts; regolith, stony desert.
    • 1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus, published 1993, page 66:
      As I say for half a mile round the fort it is rutted gravel. We call this sort of gravelly stuff reg.
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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch recht, from Middle Dutch recht, from Old Dutch reht, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz (adjective) and *rehtą (noun), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós.

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reg (attributive regte, comparative regter, superlative regste)

  1. right; correct
  2. real; true; actual

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reg (plural regte)

  1. justice
  2. right

Amanab

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reg

  1. child

Catalan

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Deverbal from regar.

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reg m (plural regs)

  1. irrigation

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Chinese

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From clipping of English register.

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reg

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) to register (a course, a programme, an event, etc.)

German

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reg

  1. singular imperative of regen
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of regen

Hungarian

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  • IPA(key): [ˈrɛɡ]
  • Hyphenation: reg

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reg

  1. (obsolete) morn (morning)
    Synonym: reggel

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative reg regek
accusative reget regeket
dative regnek regeknek
instrumental reggel regekkel
causal-final regért regekért
translative reggé regekké
terminative regig regekig
essive-formal regként regekként
essive-modal — —
inessive regben regekben
superessive regen regeken
adessive regnél regeknél
illative regbe regekbe
sublative regre regekre
allative reghez regekhez
elative regből regekből
delative regről regekről
ablative regtől regektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		regé regeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		regéi regekéi
Possessive forms of reg
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. regem regeim, regjeim
2nd person sing. reged regeid, regjeid
3rd person sing. rege, regje regei, regjei
1st person plural regünk regeink, regjeink
2nd person plural regetek regeitek, regjeitek
3rd person plural regük, regjük regeik, regjeik

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  • reg in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Old Irish

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·reg

  1. first-person singular future conjunct of téit

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
·reg
also ·rreg 		·reg
pronounced with /-r(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Volapük

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Borrowed from Latin rēx, rēgem (“king”).

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reg (nominative plural regs)

  1. (male or female) royal monarch, king / queen

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declension of reg
singular plural
nominative reg regs
genitive rega regas
dative rege reges
accusative regi regis
vocative 1 o reg! o regs!
predicative 2 regu regus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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Welsh

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Noun

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reg

  1. Soft mutation of rheg.

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
rheg reg unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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