hag
Scots
noun
Definitions
- a notch; a pit or break
- a stroke of an axe or similar instrument
- the felling of timber; the quantity of wood felled
- a quagmire from which peat or turf is cut
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English haggen (chop, cut, hack) derived from Old Norse hǫggva (hew, chop, strike, cut).
Origin
Old Norse
hǫggva
Gloss
hew, chop, strike, cut
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- haggle English
- hogge Norwegian Bokmål
- *hawwaną Proto-Germanic
- hogga Norwegian Nynorsk
- *haccian Old English
- hogg Old English
- hēawan Old English
- haggen Middle English
- hagis Middle English
- hǫggva Old Norse
- hugge Danish
- höggva Icelandic
- høgga Faroese
- hugga Old Swedish
- haagg Westrobothnian
- brae Scots
- brae-hag Scots