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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

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.

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References

  1. [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.
  2. [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.

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