deg

See also: DEG, dEG, dég, and deg.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛɡ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Etymology 1

Noun

deg (plural degs)

1. (mathematics) Abbreviation of degree.

See also

• grad
• rad

Etymology 2

Verb

deg (third-person singular simple present degs, present participle degging, simple past and past participle degged)

1. (Northern England, dialectal) To sprinkle, moisten.
   • 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, OCLC 5093462, stanza 3, page 53:

     Degged with dew, dappled with dew / Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, / Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, / And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.

Anagrams

• EDG, EGD, GED, Ged, egd, ged

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Cornish

Cornish cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : deg     Ordinal : degves

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *deg, from Proto-Celtic *dekam, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

Numeral

deg

1. ten

Mutation

  Mutation of deg  

Cornish consonant mutation
unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
deg	dheg	unchanged	teg	teg	teg

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Latvian

Verb

deg

1. 3rd person singular present indicative form of degt
2. 3rd person plural present indicative form of degt
3. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of degt
4. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of degt

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Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From Persian دیگ‎ (dig, “cooking pot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [deɡ], [dek]

Noun

deg

1. large cooking pot

Derived terms

• degti

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæj/
• Homophone: deig
• Rhymes: -æj

Pronoun

deg

1. (personal) thee, you; object form of du
2. (also deg selv) yourself

See also

    Personal pronouns in Bokmål

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					feminine	masculine	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	meg	mi	min	mitt	mine
	Second	–	du	deg	di	din	ditt	dine
	Third	feminine (person)	hun	henne	hennes
		masculine (person)	han	han/ham	hans
		feminine (noun)	den		dens
		masculine (noun)
		neuter(noun)	det		dets
		reflexive	–	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine
Plural	First	–	vi	oss	vår		vårt	våre
	Second	–	dere	dere	deres
	Third	–	de	dem	deres

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse þik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deːɡ/ (example of pronunciation)

Pronoun

deg

1. objective case of du

See also

    Personal pronouns in Nynorsk

Number	Person	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive / Genetive
				feminine	masculine	neuter	plural
Singular	First	eg, je1	meg	mi	min	mitt	mine
	Second	du	deg	di	din	ditt	dine
	Third (reflexive)	—	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine
	Third (masculine)	han	han, honom1	hans
	Third (feminine)	ho	ho, henne	hennar, hennes1
	Third (neuter)	det		dess2
Plural	First	me, vi	oss	vår		vårt	våre
	Second	de, dokker	dykk, dokker	dykkar, dokkar
	Third	dei	dei, deim1	deira, deires1

¹Obsolete. ²Rare or literary.

References

• “deg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dej/

Noun

deġ m (Mercian, Kent)

1. Alternative form of dæġ

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Somali

Noun

deg f

1. ear

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish degher, from Old Norse deig, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, to mold, to form”). Compare Norwegian Bokmål deig, Norwegian Nynorsk deig, Icelandic deig, Faroese deiggj, Danish dej.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA^(key): /deːɡ/

Noun

deg c

1. dough; a thick mix of flour and water
2. (uncountable, slang) dough; money

Declension

Declension of deg
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	deg	degen	degar	degarna
Genitive	degs	degens	degars	degarnas

See also

• smet

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Volapük

Volapük cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : deg     Ordinal : degid

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deɡ/

Numeral

deg

1. ten

Synonyms

• bals (obsolete, Original Volapük)

Derived terms

• degid

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Welsh

Welsh cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : deg     Ordinal : degfed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deːɡ/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *deg, from Proto-Celtic *dekam, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

Alternative forms

• deng

Numeral

deg

1. ten

Noun

deg m (plural degau)

1. ten

Mutation

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

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “deg”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Etymology 2

Adjective

deg

1. Soft mutation of teg.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
teg	deg	nheg	theg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.