lege
Danish
/lajə/
verb
Definitions
- to play
- to spawn
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse leika (play) inherited from Proto-Germanic *laikaną (move about, jump, play).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*laikaną
Gloss
move about, jump, play
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
踊
Emoji
🐸 🦘
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- lakin English
- skylark English
- *leyg- Proto-Indo-European
- leike Norwegian Bokmål
- leke Norwegian Bokmål
- *laikaną Proto-Germanic
- *laiko- Proto-Germanic
- leka Swedish
- lekplats Swedish
- leksak Swedish
- väderleka Swedish
- leike Norwegian Nynorsk
- lacan Old English
- leika Old Norse
- leikari Old Norse
- leikmaðr Old Norse
- legeplads Danish
- plads Danish
- leika Icelandic
- leika Faroese
- 𐌱𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *lī(h)strō gmw-pro
- leka Old Swedish
- leka, lēka Old Swedish