lige
English edit
Etymology edit
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Verb edit
lige (third-person singular simple present liges, present participle liging, simple past and past participle liged)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lige”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse líki, from Proto-Germanic *galīkô, cognate with Old English ġelīca (English like) and Old High German gilīhho (German seinesgleichen). Definite form of the adjective *galīkaz (“same, like”).
Noun edit
lige (uninflected)
Etymology 2 edit
Originally the definite form of lig.
Adjective edit
lige (uninflected)
- straight, not bent
- equal
- (mathematics, of an integer) even (being of the form , where is an integer)
- (mathematics, of a function) even (such that )
Coordinate terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
From Old Norse líka, from Proto-Germanic *galīkê, cognate with English like, German gleich. Adverb from the adjective Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“same, like”), see lig.
Adverb edit
lige
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
lige (plural liges)
Further reading edit
- “lige”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
lige
- present subjunctive analytic of lig
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Disputed; thought to be of Germanic origin. See English liege.
Noun edit
lige oblique singular, m (oblique plural liges, nominative singular liges, nominative plural lige)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Old Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Celtic *legyom, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie (down)”).
Noun edit
lige n
- verbal noun of laigid
- lying down, reclining, sleeping
- c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 85, pages 115-179:
- Nicon fordamar suide nó ligi do fir díob con·gabsat an deorad iterum.
- [Adamnan] did not allow them to sit or lie down unless they receive the stranger again.
- bed, couch
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55c19
- Cid in tan no·mbíth inna ligiu, ba ac imrádud chloíne no·bíth.
- Even when he used to be in his bed, he used to be meditating iniquity.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55c19
- (figuratively) grave
Inflection edit
Neuter io-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | ligeN | ligeL | ligeL |
Vocative | ligeN | ligeL | ligeL |
Accusative | ligeN | ligeL | ligeL |
Genitive | ligiL | ligeL | ligeN |
Dative | ligiuL | ligib | ligib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
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Noun edit
lige f
Inflection edit
Feminine iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | ligeL | ligiL | ligi |
Vocative | ligeL | ligiL | ligi |
Accusative | ligiN | ligiL | ligi |
Genitive | lige | ligeL | ligeN |
Dative | ligiL | ligib | ligib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
lige also llige after a proclitic |
lige pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Turkish edit
Noun edit
lige