cog
English
/kɒɡ/, /kɑɡ/
noun
Definitions
- A tooth on a gear.
- A gear; a cogwheel.
- An unimportant individual in a greater system.
- (carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
- (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English cogge derived from Proto-Germanic *kuggō derived from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (hump, ball).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gugā
Gloss
hump, ball
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
玉
Emoji
🐪 🐫
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- becudgel English
- coggery English
- coggle English
- coggly English
- cogless English
- coglike English
- cograil English
- cogset English
- cogwheel English
- cogwheeled English
- cogwheeling English
- cudgel English
- cudgeler English
- cudgeller English
- rail English
- set English
- wheel English
- kogge Dutch, Flemish
- *gugā Proto-Indo-European
- *kuggō Proto-Germanic
- kagge Swedish
- kuggdrev Swedish
- kugge Swedish
- cogge Middle English
- kag Middle English
- kuggel Middle English
- kaggi Old Norse
- kaggi Icelandic
- cogghe Middle Dutch