lagg

See also: lägg

English

Etymology

Compare the dialectal (Sussex, Somerset) English term(s) lag ("long, narrow, marshy meadow, usually by the side of a stream") and leg ("long, narrow meadow, gen. one which runs out of a larger piece of land"), apparently from leg (“limb”) (as of a body, or body of water).^[1] Compare also Middle English lech(e) (“sluggish stream flowing through bog; bog”), usually attested with ch (whence English letch), but infrequently found as leg, lage in names.^[2]

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /læɡ/

Noun

lagg (plural laggs)

1. The very wet area around the perimeter of a (raised) bog, where water collects.

   Coordinate term: rand

   • 1988, Heinz Ellenberg, Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, page 329:

     Whenever one wants to get to a typical raised bog one usually has to wade through the more or less waterlogged lagg. On the bog itself in dry weather one could walk about in light shoes without getting one's feet wet.

   • 1995, John Eastman, The Book of Swamp & Bog, page 124:

     Surface-water inflow is now largely confined to the lagg, or moat, often surrounding a bog's outer margins.

See also

• fen, morass, see more in swamp

References

1. Joseph Wright, editor (1902), “LAG”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume III (H–L), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.

   • Joseph Wright, editor (1902), “LEG”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume III (H–L), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.
2. Namely, in Cauleg in 1352 and Caulage in 1479 (in A. Mawer, The Place-Names of Northumberland and Durham (1920), 42, as cited in the Middle English Dictionary.

Gothic

Romanization

lagg

1. Romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌲

Manx

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *luggo-, from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”), see also Greek λυγίζω (lygízo, “bend”), Irish lag (“pit, hollow”).

Adjective

lagg

1. hollow

Derived terms

• lagg-hooillagh (“hollow-eyed”, adjective)

References

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “lagg”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page lag

Swedish

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lagg

Wikipedia ^sv

a wooden tub with laggar (lags, staves) being made – a laggkärl

another laggkärl

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lagg (“barrel stave, split piece of wood”), from Proto-Germanic *lawwd, from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to sever, cut apart, loosen”).^[1]

Noun

lagg c

1. a pancake griddle
2. a batch of pancakes or the like
3. a lag (stave in a wooden vessel)

   Synonym: tunnstav

4. (colloquial, usually in the plural) a ski

   Synonym: skida

Declension

Declension of lagg

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	lagg	laggs
	definite	laggen	laggens
plural	indefinite	laggar	laggars
	definite	laggarna	laggarnas

Derived terms

• laggkärl
• pannkakslagg
• plättlagg
• våffellagg

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English lag.

Noun

lagg n

1. (computing) lag

Declension

Declension of lagg

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	lagg	laggs
	definite	lagget	laggets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• lagga

References

• lagg in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• lagg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• lagg in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

1. “lagg”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.