bagge

• bage, baggue, bagke, bayge

Borrowed from Old Norse baggi; compare Old French bague.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɡ(ə)/

bagge

1. A fabric container; a bag, sack, pouch, purse, or wallet.
2. A bagpipe; a musical instrument consisting of a bag and a pipe.

• bagage
• bagpipe

• English: bag
• Scots: bag
• → Medieval Latin: baga

• bælg, belg

• “bagge, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Cognate with Old Norse and Icelandic baggi, Old Norse bǫggr, Middle English bagge. The hypothesis for the shift in sense from "bag" to "ram" is by reference to the testicles of an unneutered ram. Doublet of bagage and packe.

bagge c

1. ram (male sheep)
2. (in compounds) beetle

   skalbagge

   beetle

• bagge in Svensk ordbok.
• bagge in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)