hag
English
/hæɡ/
noun
Definitions
- A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
- (pejorative) An ugly old woman.
- A fury; a she-monster.
- A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family Myxinidae, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.
- A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
- (obsolete) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
- The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
- (slang) sleep paralysis
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English hagge inherited from Old English hægtesse (hag, witch) inherited from Proto-Germanic *hagatusjō derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱak- (branch, be able, stick, help).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱak-
Gloss
branch, be able, stick, help
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
枝
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- berry English
- born English
- fish English
- hag-taper English
- hagberry English
- hagborn English
- hagfish English
- hagged English
- haggish English
- haggishly English
- haggishness English
- haglike English
- hagridden English
- hagride English
- hagseed English
- hagship English
- hagsploitation English
- ridden English
- ride English
- seed English
- taper English
- Hexe German
- Hexenjagd German
- Hexenkessel German
- Hexenkunst German
- Hexenküche German
- Hexenprozess German
- Hexenring German
- Hexensabbat German
- Hexenschuss German
- Hexer German
- Hexerei German
- heks Dutch, Flemish
- heksenjacht Dutch, Flemish
- heksenketel Dutch, Flemish
- heksenkring Dutch, Flemish
- heksenmelk Dutch, Flemish
- heksensabbat Dutch, Flemish
- hekserij Dutch, Flemish
- *kek- / *ḱek- / *kekʰ- / *ḱekʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱak- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱak-, *ḱak-náw-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱak-néw-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *hagatusjō Proto-Germanic
- *hagaz Proto-Germanic
- heks Polish
- heahfore, hēahfre Old English
- hægtesse Old English
- शक् Sanskrit
- शक्ति Sanskrit
- शक्नोति Sanskrit
- शाखा Sanskrit
- hagge Middle English
- hagleikr Old Norse
- hagr Old Norse
- hagur Icelandic
- सकत Hindi
- hagzissa Old High German
- sakas Latvian
- heks Afrikaans
- hecse Middle High German
- *hagatusi gmw-pro
- *kankā Proto-Celtic
- શકવું Gujarati
- *śaknáwti Proto-Indo-Aryan
- Häkse Saterland Frisian
- Häksenseetel Saterland Frisian
- Häkseräi Saterland Frisian
- 𑀲𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀡𑁄𑀤𑀺 Sauraseni Prakrit
- 𑀲𑀓𑁆𑀓𑁂𑀤𑀺 Sauraseni Prakrit
- 𑀲𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀇 Maharastri Prakrit
- ਸਕਣਾ Panjabi, Punjabi
- *šaknīs bat-pro