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deg

See also: DEG and dEG

EnglishEdit

NounEdit

deg (plural degs)

  1. Short for degree

See alsoEdit

VerbEdit

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

  1. (Northern England, dialect) To sprinkle, moisten.
    • 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Inversnaid
      Degged with dew, dappled with dew
      Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through

AnagramsEdit


CornishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Celtic *dekam, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥t. Compare Welsh deg, Breton dek.

NumeralEdit

deg

  1. (cardinal) ten

See alsoEdit

  • (cardinal number): Previous: naw. Next: unnek

LatvianEdit

VerbEdit

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

LojbanEdit

RafsiEdit

deg

  1. rafsi of degji.

Norwegian BokmålEdit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

deg

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

Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse þik.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

deg

  1. objective case of du

ReferencesEdit

See alsoEdit

    Personal pronouns in Nynorsk
Nominative Objective case Genitive/Possessive pronoun
Singular
First person eg meg min m
Second person du deg din m
Third person m han han, honom3 hans
Third person f ho ho, henne hennar, hennes4
Third person n det, dat1 det, dat1 dess 2
Plural
First person me, vi oss vår m
Second person de, dokker dykk, dokker dykkar, dokkar, deires4
Third person dei dei, deim3 deira
Notes
1Never part of official Nynorsk/Landsmål. Primarily used before Landsmål received an official written norm.
2Rare or literary
3Traditional forms that are no longer part of the official written norm. Now primarily used in Høgnorsk texts.
4No longer part of the official written norm. These non-traditional forms were added to the norm to either approach the the Samnorsk ideal or certain dialects.

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

deg c

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

DeclensionEdit

Declension of deg
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative deg degen degar degarna
genitive degs degens degars degarnas

See alsoEdit

VolapükEdit

Volapük cardinal numbers
9 10 11
    Cardinal : deg
    Ordinal : degid

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

deg

  1. (cardinal) ten

WelshEdit

Welsh cardinal numbers
9 10 11
    Cardinal : deg
    Ordinal : degfed

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Celtic *dekam, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥t. Compare Cornish deg, Breton dek.

Alternative formsEdit

  • (before a vowel) deng

Cardinal numberEdit

deg

  1. (cardinal) ten

NounEdit

deg m (plural degau)

  1. ten

MutationEdit

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.

Etymology 2Edit

AdjectiveEdit

deg

  1. Soft mutation of teg.

MutationEdit

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.
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