lyg

Lithuanian

Etymology

Related to lýgus (“flat, even, equal”); see there for more.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lʲiːk/

Conjunction

lỹg

  1. like
  2. as if
    Synonyms: kaip, tartum

Adverb

lyg

  1. as it were

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “lyg”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 285

Further reading

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

lyg

  1. present of ljuga
  2. present of lyga

Old English

Noun

lȳġ m

  1. alternative form of līġ
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