eg

eg (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of e.g.

• GE, ge, gE, Ge

• IPA^(key): /ɛχ/

From Dutch echt.

eg (attributive egte, comparative egter, superlative egste)

1. real, true
2. genuine, authentic

eg

1. (usually before an adjective) genuinely, authentically

   Potjiekos verwys na ’n eg Suid-Afrikaanse kooktegniek.

   Potjiekos refers to an authentically South African cooking technique.

• Unlike Dutch, the adverb is not commonly used in the sense of “really, actually”, for which Afrikaans regtig, werklik.

From Dutch eg (noun) and eggen (denominal verb).

• (noun) ê, (verb) êe

eg (plural êe or egge)

1. (agriculture) harrow

eg (present eg, present participle eggende, past participle geëg)

1. to harrow (work the land with a harrow)

From Old Norse eik, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).

• IPA^(key): /eːɡ/, [eːˀj]

eg c (singular definite egen, plural indefinite ege)

1. oak, oak tree (tree or wood)

• egetræ

• eg on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• IPA^(key): /ɛx/

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• Hyphenation: eg
• Rhymes: -ɛx

From Middle Dutch egge, ultimately from the root of egge (“corner, edge”). Compare German Egge (“harrow”) and eggen (“to harrow”).

eg f (plural eggen, diminutive egje n)

1. harrow

• egge (dated)

• eggen

• Afrikaans: eg, ê

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

eg

1. inflection of eggen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• ge

From Old Norse ek, from Proto-Norse ᛖᚲ (ek), from Proto-Germanic *ek (whence also Old English iċ, Old High German ih), from Proto-Indo-European *eǵh₂óm.

• IPA^(key): /eː/
• Rhymes: -eː
• Homophones: e, E

eg (plural vit, possessive adjectives mín, mítt)

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

   Eg eti døgurða.

   I am eating dinner.

• jeg (Suðuroy dialect)

• "eg" at Sprotin.fo

• ek (very archaic)
• ég (modern)

From older Icelandic ek, from Old Norse ek, from Proto-Norse ᛖᚲ (ek), from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *eǵh₂óm. Compare with Faroese eg, Norn eg and Norwegian Nynorsk eg.

eg

1. (poetic, archaic) I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

eg (plural eg dem, quantified eg)

1. alternative spelling of egg

• eeg, egg, egge, egghe

Borrowed from Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm. Doublet of ey (“egg”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ/

eg (plural egges)

1. (chiefly Northern) egg

   Synonym: (more common) ey

• English: egg (obsolete egge)
  • →⇒ German: not the yellow from the egg
  • Jamaican Creole: eg
  • Sranan Tongo: eksi
• Middle Scots: eg, ege
  • Scots: egg
• Yola: egges (plural)

• “eg(ge, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 August 2018.
• Dance, Richard; Pons-Sanz, Sara; Schorn, Brittany (2019), “egge n”, in The Gersum Project ⁠‎^[1], University of Cambridge, University of Cardiff, and the University of Sheffield.

From Old Norse ek, from Proto-Norse ᛖᚲ (ek), from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *eǵh₂óm.

eg

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

From Old Norse ek, from Proto-Norse ᛖᚲ (ek), from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *eǵh₂óm. Akin to English I.

• IPA^(key): /ɛː(ɡ)/, /eː(ɡ)/
• (Widespread forms) IPA^(key): /eː(ɡ)/, /ɛː(ɡ)/, /æː(ɡ)/, as well as forms based on je or jeg in Eastern areas.
  • (Romsdal/Sunndal/Lesja) IPA^(key): /iː/
  • (Selbu/Lierne) IPA^(key): /iː/
• (Diphthongised forms) IPA^(key): /eiː(ɡ)/, /ɛːɪ/, /ɪɛɡ/
  • (Namdal) IPA^(key): [ɛɪːɡ], [ɛɪːɣ]
  • (Sunnmøre) IPA^(key): [a̝ːi], [ɛːɪ], [eːɪ]
  • (Flå, Horg) IPA^(key): [ɛi]
  • (North-Østerdalen) IPA^(key): [ɛi], [ɛɪ]
    • (Settler dialects in Bardu) IPA^(key): [ɛɪ]
  • (Setesdal) IPA^(key): [i̞eɡ], [ɪɛ̝ɡ̥]

eg (accusative meg)

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

eg n (definite singular eget, uncountable)

1. (metaphysics) I, ego

• “eg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /eːj/

ēġ f

1. alternative form of īeġ

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *ejVŋ (“eggs”).

eg (Kl.)

1. (anatomy) eggs

• Werner, Heinrich (2005), Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 181

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eg

1. imperative of ega