deig

From Old Norse deig, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, to mold, to form”). Compare Faroese deiggj, Norwegian Bokmål deig, Swedish deg, Danish dej.

• IPA^(key): /teiːɣ/
• Rhymes: -eiːɣ

deig n (genitive singular deigs, no plural)

1. dough

• súrdeig

• deigur

From Danish deig, older spelling of dej, from Old Norse deig, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, to mold, to form”). Compare Icelandic deig, Faroese deiggj, Swedish deg, and further English dough, Dutch deeg, German Teig.

• IPA^(key): /dæɪ̯/
• Rhymes: -æɪ̯
• Homophone: deg

deig m (definite singular deigen, indefinite plural deiger, definite plural deigene)

1. dough

• kjøttdeig
• surdeig

• “deig” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse deig, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, to mold, to form”). Compare Icelandic deig, Faroese deiggj, Swedish deg, Danish dej.

• IPA^(key): /dɛɪːɡ/

deig m (definite singular deigen, indefinite plural deigar, definite plural deigane)

1. dough

• kjøtdeig, kjøttdeig
• surdeig

• “deig” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *daigaz m, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, to mold, to form”). Related to deigr.

deig n (genitive deigs)

1. dough

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “deig”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive