lige

• IPA^(key): [ˈliːə], [ˈliːi]

From Old Norse líki, from Proto-Germanic *galīkô, cognate with Old English ġelīca (English like) and Old High German gilīhho (German seinesgleichen). Definite form of the adjective *galīkaz (“same, like”).

lige (uninflected)

1. like, match

Originally the definite form of lig.

lige (uninflected)

1. straight, not bent
2. equal
3. (mathematics, of an integer) even (being of the form ${\displaystyle 2n}$, where ${\displaystyle n}$ is an integer)
4. (mathematics, of a function) even (such that ${\displaystyle f(x)=f(-x)}$)

• ulige

From Old Norse líka, from Proto-Germanic *galīkê, cognate with English like, German gleich. Adverb from the adjective Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“same, like”), see lig.

lige

1. just, recently
2. just, merely, simply
3. just, exactly

• IPA^(key): /liʒ/

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lige (plural liges)

1. liege

• “lige”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): [ˈl̠ʲɪɟə]

lige

1. present subjunctive analytic of lig

liġe

1. imperative singular of liċġan

• liege

Disputed; thought to be of Germanic origin. See English liege.

lige oblique singular, m (oblique plural liges, nominative singular liges, nominative plural lige)

1. liege; liegeman; vassal

• lijance

• → Middle English: lege, leege, legge, legi, leyge, liage, liege, lyege, lyge
  • English: liege
  • Scots: liege

• IPA^(key): [ˈl͈ʲiɣʲe]

From Proto-Celtic *legyom, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie (down)”).

lige n

1. verbal noun of laigid
2. lying down, reclining, sleeping
   • c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 85, pages 115-179:

     Nicon fordamar suide nó ligi do fir díob con·gabsat an deorad iterum.

     [Adamnan] did not allow them to sit or lie down unless they receive the stranger again.

3. bed, couch
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55^c19

     Cid in tan no·mbíth inna ligiu, ba ac imrádud chloíne no·bíth.

     Even when he used to be in his bed, he used to be meditating iniquity.

4. (figuratively) grave

• (bed): dérgud, imdae, lepaid, sceng

• comluige
• coiblige
• freslige

From lig(id) +‎ -e

lige f

1. verbal noun of ligid: licking

lige

1. dative singular of lig