mager
Dutch (Brabantic)
/ˈmaː.ɣər/
adj
Definitions
- lean, (nearly) without fat
- meager, skinny, thin
- poor, pitiful, skim
- infertile (said of soil); weak
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch mager inherited from Old Dutch *magar inherited from Proto-Germanic *magraz (lean, meager) derived from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱros.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mh₂ḱros
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- comeager English
- meager English
- meagerly English
- meagerness English
- macer Latin
- macrum Latin
- brood Dutch, Flemish
- broodmager Dutch, Flemish
- μακρός Ancient Greek
- *meh₂ḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *mh₂ḱros Proto-Indo-European
- *magraz Proto-Germanic
- mæger Old English
- megre Middle English
- magr Old Norse
- mager Middle Dutch
- magar Old High German
- mér Old Irish
- maer Afrikaans
- moer Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *magar Old Dutch
- *māger Old Frisian
- maga Jamaican Creole
- mawga Jamaican Creole