cag
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English kag, of North Germanic origin, related to Old Norse kaggi, Swedish kagge.
Noun edit
cag (plural cags)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A keg.
Etymology 2 edit
Shortening.
Noun edit
cag (plural cags)
Etymology 3 edit
From English dialect, from Middle English *kagge, perhaps from Old Norse *kagi, *kaggi, from Proto-Germanic *kagô (“bush, stump”). Cognate with dialectal German Kag (“cabbage stalk, stump”), Swedish kage (“treestump”). Possibly from the same root as Old Norse kaggi (“barrel, cask, keg”).[1] Doublet of chag.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
cag (plural cags)
- (dialectal) A projecting piece left on a tree or shrub when a branch is severed; knob; stump.
- (dialectal) The stump of a broken tooth; a tooth standing alone.
- (dialectal) An angular tear or rent in a piece of cloth.
Etymology 4 edit
Uncertain. Cognate with Scots kag, kagg (“to vex, grieve”). Perhaps from Middle English caggen (“to tie, bind”), possibly from or related to Old Norse kǫgurr (“quilt, blanket, bedcover, coffin cloth”). Alternatively, perhaps allied with Norwegian Nynorsk kjaka (“to wrangle, harass”).
Verb edit
cag (third-person singular simple present cags, present participle cagging, simple past and past participle cagged)
- (slang, now dialectal, transitive) To vex; annoy; insult, offend; grieve.
- 1824, Pierce Egan, Boxiana; Or, Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism, page 344:
- If a little petulance be discovered in SPRING's printed reply, perhaps it was cagged out of him by the very unceremonious manner of approach adopted by Langan and Reynolds […]
- (slang, now dialectal, transitive) To chatter, gossip.
Derived terms edit
References edit
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
References edit
- ^ Liberman, A. (2009). Word Origins And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone. United States: Oxford University Press, p. 179
Anagrams edit
Mapudungun edit
Alternative forms edit
- chang (Unified Alphabet)
Noun edit
cag (Raguileo spelling)
References edit
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Somali edit
Noun edit
cag ?
White Hmong edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Hmong *ɟoŋᴬ (“root”); probably related to Proto-Mien *ndzuŋᴬ (“id”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cag
- root
- Ntoo muaj cag loj. ― The tree has a big root.
References edit
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 73; 273.
Zhuang edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Tai *ɟɤːkᴰ (“rope; cord”). Cognate with Thai เชือก (chʉ̂ʉak), Lao ເຊືອກ (sư̄ak), Lü ᦵᦋᦲᧅ (tsoek), Tai Dam ꪹꪋꪀ, Shan ၸိူၵ်ႈ (tsōek), Tai Nüa ᥓᥫᥐ (tsoek), Ahom 𑜋𑜢𑜤𑜀𑜫 (chük), Nong Zhuang zowg.
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /ɕaːk˧/
- Tone numbers: cag8
- Hyphenation: cag
Noun edit
cag (Sawndip forms 𰫦 or 䋏 or 䌇 or ⿰糹长, 1957–1982 spelling cag)