leggja
Faroese
verb
Definitions
- to lay, to put, to place
- to farrow
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse leggja (lay, place, put) inherited from Proto-Germanic *lagjaną (lay, place).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*lagjaną
Gloss
lay, place
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *legʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *leh₁d- Proto-Indo-European
- legge Norwegian Bokmål
- *lagjaną Proto-Germanic
- *laibijaną Proto-Germanic
- *ligjaną Proto-Germanic
- legga Norwegian Nynorsk
- legge Norwegian Nynorsk
- leggja Norwegian Nynorsk
- leggje Norwegian Nynorsk
- afleggja Old Norse
- leggja Old Norse
- lægge Danish
- leggja Icelandic
- leggen Old High German
- lecaid Old Irish
- 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *laggjan gmw-pro
- leggen Old Dutch
- *laittadak Proto-Finnic
- læggia Old Swedish
- lidza Old Frisian