lägg

Swedish

noun
Definitions
  • (dated) a leg
  • (cooking) knuckle, shin, hand; part of a leg of an animal
  • a file; a printed sheet that becomes a number of pages in a book

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish lægger inherited from Old Norse leggr (bone, stalk, leg, bone of the arm leg, calf, hollow tube, lower leg) inherited from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz (thigh, leg) derived from Proto-Indo-European *(ǝ)lak-.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*(ǝ)lak-

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