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1. (anatomy) skin

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

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1. first/third-person singular subjunctive II of liegen

• laͤge (obsolete typography)

Related to ligga (“to lie”) and lägga (“to lay”), like German Lage.

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2. a position (same location/orientation duality as in English); a location

   Huset har ett bra läge

   The house is in a good location

   liggande läge

   lying position

3. a situation, a state

   Hur är läget?

   What's up?

   gilla läget

   accept the situation

   världsläget

   the global situation

4. an opportunity (from notion of an (implied good) situation)

   Han är helt ensam med målvakten. Vilket läge!

   He's completely alone with the goalie. What an opportunity!

5. a (fishermen's) village

Idiomatic for something being in a good/bad/etc. location in (sense 1). Places more emphasis on the surroundings compared to position, in a similar way to "The house is in a good location" vs. "The house is in a good position."

(fishing village):

• Arildsläge

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• läge in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• läge in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• läge in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• läge in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)