ljuga
Swedish
/²jʉːɡa/
verb-irr
Definitions
- to lie, to tell an untruth
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish liūgha, liugha inherited from Old Norse ljúga (lie) inherited from Proto-Germanic *leuganą (lie) derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewgʰ- (swear, tell a lie, tell lies, bemoan, complain, lie).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*lewgʰ-
Gloss
swear, tell a lie, tell lies, bemoan, complain, lie
Concept
Semantic Field
Law
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anlügen German
- belügen German
- erlügen German
- lügen German
- umlügen German
- vorlügen German
- zusammenlügen German
- *lewgʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- juge Norwegian Bokmål
- lyge Norwegian Bokmål
- lyve Norwegian Bokmål
- *leuganą Proto-Germanic
- *luginō Proto-Germanic
- lögn Swedish
- ljuga Norwegian Nynorsk
- lyge Norwegian Nynorsk
- ljúga Old Norse
- lyve Danish
- *lъgati Proto-Slavic
- ljúga Icelandic
- liogan Old High German
- lúgva Faroese
- liegen Middle High German
- léien Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *leugan gmw-pro
- liegan Old Dutch
- lugina Old Saxon
- liugha Old Swedish
- liūgha, liugha Old Swedish
- ljuug Westrobothnian
- liāga Old Frisian
- liughæ Old Danish
- ljuğa Scanian