ergi
See also: Ergi
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ergi
- erg (unit)
Declension edit
Inflection of ergi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | ergi | ergit | ||
genitive | ergin | ergien | ||
partitive | ergiä | ergejä | ||
illative | ergiin | ergeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | ergi | ergit | ||
accusative | nom. | ergi | ergit | |
gen. | ergin | |||
genitive | ergin | ergien | ||
partitive | ergiä | ergejä | ||
inessive | ergissä | ergeissä | ||
elative | ergistä | ergeistä | ||
illative | ergiin | ergeihin | ||
adessive | ergillä | ergeillä | ||
ablative | ergiltä | ergeiltä | ||
allative | ergille | ergeille | ||
essive | erginä | ergeinä | ||
translative | ergiksi | ergeiksi | ||
abessive | ergittä | ergeittä | ||
instructive | — | ergein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ergi
- inflection of ergere:
Anagrams edit
Old Norse edit
Alternative forms edit
- regi — with metathesis
Etymology edit
Formally from Proto-Germanic *argį̄. Proto-Norse ᛡᚱᛡᚷᛖᚢ (ᴀrᴀgeu /arᵃgju/) (dative/instrumental singular) appears to be a jōn-stem noun, but may still be ancestral to ergi if the declension were irregularly changed. By surface analysis, argr (“effeminate, shameful, homosexual”) + -i (“-ness”, abstract noun suffix).
Noun edit
ergi f (genitive ergi)
- the state of being argr; variously translated as lewdness, perversity, effeminacy, degeneracy
Declension edit
Declension of ergi (weak īn-stem, singular only)
References edit
- Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
- “ergi”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Salar edit
Etymology edit
Compare to Khakas иргі (irgì).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
ergi