kaggi

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse kaggi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰacːɪ/
    • Rhymes: -acːɪ

Noun

kaggi m (genitive singular kagga, nominative plural kaggar)

  1. keg, cask, small barrel
    Synonym: kútur

Declension

Declension of kaggi (masculine)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative kaggi kagginn kaggar kaggarnir
accusative kagga kaggann kagga kaggana
dative kagga kagganum köggum köggunum
genitive kagga kaggans kagga kagganna

Old Norse

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Germanic base *kagô (“bush, branch, stalk, stump”), also found in dialectal German Kag (“cabbage stalk, stump”), Swedish kage (“treestump”) +‎ -gi (diminutive suffix).[1] Compare Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze, gorse”), whence English chag (“branch”). The ultimate origin could be related to English cog,[2] or Old English cǣġ (“key”).[3]

Noun

kaggi m

  1. keg, cask
  2. basin

Descendants

  • Icelandic: kaggi m
  • Faroese: kaggi f
  • Swedish: kagge c
  • → Middle English: *kagge, kag
  • → Old French: caque

References

  1. ^ Liberman, A. (2009). Word Origins And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone. United States: Oxford University Press, p. 179
  2. ^ Columbia University Germanic Studies. (1900). United States: Columbia University Press, p. 35
  3. ^ An Analytic Dictionary of the English Etymology: An Introduction. (n.d.). United Kingdom: U of Minnesota Press, p. 128

Further reading

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