Waage
Icelandic
/ˈvɔːɣɛː/
proper noun
Etymology
Borrowed from German Waage (scale, scales, weight) derived from Old Norse vágr (sea, bay, wave, sea bay, inlet, creek, matter from a sore).
Origin
Old Norse
vágr
Gloss
sea, bay, wave, sea bay, inlet, creek, matter from a sore
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
江
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Waage German
- Waagschale German
- Wasserwaage German
- waagerecht German
- våg Norwegian Bokmål
- *wēgaz Proto-Germanic
- våg Norwegian Nynorsk
- vágr Old Norse
- vague Old French
- wage Old French
- vaga Serbo-Croatian
- вага Serbo-Croatian
- vogur Icelandic
- vágur Faroese
- wāge Middle High German
- vagh, vāgh Old Swedish
- vog Westrobothnian
- vaga Slovene
- wagh Old Danish