rygg
Swedish
[rʏɡ]
noun
Definitions
- (anatomy) back; the rear of the body; especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine
- (geography) ridge; the line along which two sloping surfaces meet
- (military) rear
- spine; the hinged back of a book
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish rygger inherited from Old Norse hryggr inherited from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (back, spine, ridge) derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krewk.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)krewk
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Ridgewood English
- enridge English
- interridge English
- microridge English
- nanoridge English
- ridge English
- ridge beam English
- ridgeback English
- ridgeband English
- ridgebone English
- ridged English
- ridgehand English
- ridgehead English
- ridgeless English
- ridgelet English
- ridgelike English
- ridgeline English
- ridgeling English
- ridgepiece English
- ridgeplate English
- ridgepole English
- ridgerope English
- ridgeside English
- ridgetop English
- ridgewalking English
- ridgeway English
- ridgy English
- rigid English
- runridge English
- sandridge English
- upridge English
- *(s)kreuk- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)krewk Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)krewk- Proto-Indo-European
- rygg Norwegian Bokmål
- *hrugjaz Proto-Germanic
- back Swedish
- borste Swedish
- grå Swedish
- gråryggig törnskata Swedish
- kota Swedish
- märg Swedish
- rygga Swedish
- ryggborste Swedish
- ryggkota Swedish
- ryggmärg Swedish
- ryggsäck Swedish
- ryggsåg Swedish
- säck Swedish
- törnskata Swedish
- rygg Norwegian Nynorsk
- hrycg Old English
- hryċġ Old English
- rigge Middle English
- hryggleikr Old Norse
- hryggr Old Norse
- ryg Danish
- rucki Old High German
- ryggur Faroese
- *hrugi gmw-pro
- ruggi Old Dutch
- hruggi Old Saxon
- rygger Old Swedish
- röigg Westrobothnian
- hreg Old Frisian
- rintsch Crimean Gothic