mager
Norwegian
adjective
Definitions
- meager (US) or meagre (UK), lean
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse magr (thin, meager) derived from Proto-Germanic *magraz (lean, meager) derived from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱros.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mh₂ḱros
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- comeager English
- meager English
- meagerly English
- meagerness English
- macer Latin
- macrum Latin
- μακρός Ancient Greek
- *meh₂ḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *mh₂ḱros Proto-Indo-European
- ut Norwegian Bokmål
- utmagret Norwegian Bokmål
- *magraz Proto-Germanic
- mager Norwegian Nynorsk
- mæger Old English
- megre Middle English
- magr Old Norse
- magrligr Old Norse
- magur Icelandic
- magar Old High German
- mér Old Irish
- magur Faroese
- *magar Old Dutch
- magher Old Swedish
- mæger Westrobothnian
- *māger Old Frisian
- maghær Old Danish
- maga Jamaican Creole
- mawga Jamaican Creole