cæg

See also: caeg

Old English

Alternative forms

• cǣġe

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kaiju.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæːj/

Noun

cǣġ f

1. key
   • Saturnus sumra hæfde bōca cǣġa ― Saturn had the keys of some books. (Dialogues of Salomon and Saturn)

Declension

Declension of cæg (strong ō-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cǣġ	cǣġa, cǣġe
accusative	cǣġe	cǣġa, cǣġe
genitive	cǣġe	cǣġa
dative	cǣġe	cǣġum

Descendants

• Middle English: keye, kaye, keiȝe
  • English: key
  • Scots: key, kay

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “CǼG”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.