vagga

• IPA^(key): /ˈvakːa/

  Rhymes: -akːa

Answering to Faroese vagga, Norwegian vagge, Swedish vagga. Compare English wag, German wacken and Proto-Germanic *wagǭ.

vagga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative vaggaði, supine vaggað)

1. to move (something) back and forth in a swaying motion; to rock [with dative]
2. (intransitive) to move back and forth in a swaying motion; to rock

From Old Norse vagga (“cradle”), from the verb. Cognate with Faroese vøgga, Norwegian Nynorsk vogge, Swedish vagga, Danish vugge.

vagga f (genitive singular vöggu, nominative plural vöggur)

1. cradle

• vöggustofa

• “vagga” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

• vagge

From Old Norse vaga.

• IPA^(key): /²ʋɑɡːɑ/

vagga (present tense vaggar, past tense vagga, past participle vagga, passive infinitive vaggast, present participle vaggande, imperative vagga/vagg)

1. to waddle, to rock, to sway
   • 1977, Kjartan Fløgstad, Dalen Portland:

     Den unge kvinna vaggar tungt over golvet.

     The young woman waddles heavily across the floor.

• “vagga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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vagga f (genitive vǫggu)

1. cradle

• Icelandic: vagga
• Faroese: vagga
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vogge
• Norwegian Bokmål: vogge, vugge
• Swedish: vagga
• Danish: vugge

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

Inherited from Sanskrit वर्ग (varga, “group”).

vagga m

1. company
2. section (e.g. of a book)
3. group
4. (grammar) group of consonants with a property in common, such as place of articulation

• → Burmese: ဝဂ် (wag)
• → Khmer: វគ្គ (vĕək)

Inherited from Sanskrit व्यग्र (vyagra).

vagga

1. separated
2. incomplete
3. dissentious

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vagga c

1. a cradle (bed for a baby that can oscillate or swing back and forth)
2. (figuratively) a cradle (the place where something has its origin)

   civilisationens vagga

   the cradle of civilization

• linda

vagga (present vaggar, preterite vaggade, supine vaggat, imperative vagga)

1. to rock ((like) in a cradle, in a swaying motion), to cradle

   bli vaggad i en vagga

   be rocked in a cradle

   Vågorna vaggade oss till sömns

   The waves rocked us to sleep

   • 1932, Evert Taube, “Calle Schewens vals [Calle Schewen's Waltz]”‎^[1]:

     I Roslagens famn på den blommande ö, där vågorna klucka [old present tense plural, usually kluckar] mot strand, och vassarna vagga [old present tense plural, usually vaggar] och nyslaget hö, det doftar emot mig ibland.

     In Roslagen's embrace on the flowering island, where the waves lap ["cluck" – onomatopoeic] against shore [sic – indefinite], and the reeds sway [gently rock] and of freshly mown hay, it wafts [smells pleasantly, "scents"] towards me sometimes [sic].

   • 1970, “Kalle Teodor”, Astrid Lindgren (lyrics), Georg Riedel (music)‎^[2]:

     I storm på Biskaya gick skeppet i kvav, skeppet han segla' [seglade], Kalle Teodor, och därför så vilar han nu i sin grav, vaggad av sjögräs, Kalle Teodor. Men en stormnatt kan du höra nån som ropar: Hej hå! Ifrån havets djup det kommer, och det låter så: Hej hå! Hej hå!

     In stormy weather in Biscay, the ship went down, the ship he was sailing, Kalle Teodor, and therefore he now rests in his grave, cradled ["rocked" (like in a cradle), but works as a translation] by seaweed, Kalle Teodor. But on a stormy night you can hear someone calling: Hey ho! From the ocean depths ["the sea's depth(s)" – intuitively "depth," though the plural is identical – singular is idiomatic in "dras ner i djupet" (be pulled into the depths [depth]), for example] it comes, and it sounds like that: Hey ho! Hey ho! [Or "and it sounds like so," but that is an idiomatic way of saying "and it sounds like that," whereas "and it sounds like this" would normally be put as "och det låter så här." The official lyrics have a colon.]

2. to rock (move gently back and forth (like a cradle))
   1. to waddle (of a duck or the like)

      Ankan vaggade iväg

      The duck waddled away

      vagg, vagg

      waddle, waddle [ad hoc deverbal]

• vaggvisa

• gunga (“swing, rock, sway”) (larger movements)
• vyssja (“lull”)

• vagga in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vagga in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vagga in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)