lag
Danish
/laːˀɣ/
noun
Definitions
- layer, coat a coherent mass spread on the top or on the outside of something else
- (sociology) class, stratum class of society with similar status
- (geology) stratum layer of sedimentary rock
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse lag (fellowship, place, layer, stratum, companionship, thrust, stab, etc, standard, cohabitation, due place) inherited from Proto-Germanic *lagą (that which is laid down, something laid, law).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*lagą
Gloss
that which is laid down, something laid, law
Concept
Semantic Field
Law
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *legʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- lag Norwegian Bokmål
- *lagą Proto-Germanic
- lag Norwegian Nynorsk
- augnalag Old Norse
- auralag Old Norse
- banalag Old Norse
- fornyrðislag Old Norse
- félag Old Norse
- lag Old Norse
- lǫg Old Norse
- taumalag Old Norse
- fælle Danish
- fælles Danish
- fællig Danish
- grund Danish
- grundlag Danish
- kage Danish
- lagkage Danish
- lag Icelandic
- lag Faroese
- *lako Proto-Finnic
- lawi Westrobothnian
- lagh Old Danish