Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse kaggi.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

kaggi m (genitive singular kagga, nominative plural kaggar)

  1. keg, cask, small barrel

Declension edit

Synonyms edit

Old Norse edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From the Germanic base *kagô (bush, branch, stalk, stump), also found in dialectal German Kag (cabbage stalk, stump), Swedish kage (treestump) +‎ -gi (diminutive suffix).[1] Compare Old English ċeacga (broom, furze, gorse), whence English chag (branch). The ultimate origin could be related to English cog,[2] or Old English cæg.[3]

Noun edit

kaggi m

  1. keg, cask
  2. basin

Descendants edit

  • Icelandic: kaggi m
  • Swedish: kagge c
  • Middle English: *kagge, kag
  • Old French: caque

References edit

  • kaggi”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press
  1. ^ Liberman, A. (2009). Word Origins And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone. United States: Oxford University Press, p. 179
  2. ^ Columbia University Germanic Studies. (1900). United States: Columbia University Press, p. 35
  3. ^ An Analytic Dictionary of the English Etymology: An Introduction. (n.d.). United Kingdom: U of Minnesota Press, p. 128