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See also: ligę

English

Verb

lige (third-person singular simple present liges, present participle liging, simple past and past participle liged)

  1. (obsolete) To lie; to tell lies.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lige”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams


Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈliːə], [ˈliːi]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse líki, from Proto-Germanic *galīkô, cognate with Old English ġelīca (English like) and Old High German gilīhho (German seinesgleichen). Definite form of the adjective *galīkaz (same, like)

Noun

lige (uninflected)

  1. like, match

Etymology 2

Originally the definite form of lig.

Adjective

lige (uninflected)

  1. straight, not bent
  2. equal
  3. (mathematics, of an integer) even (being of the form  , where   is an integer)
  4. (mathematics, of a function) even (such that  )
Coordinate terms

Etymology 3

From Old Norse líka, from Proto-Germanic *galīkê, cognate with English like, German gleich. Adverb from the adjective Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (same, like), see lig.

Adverb

lige

  1. just, recently
  2. just, merely, simply
  3. just, exactly

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

lige (plural liges)

  1. liege

Further reading


Irish

Pronunciation

Verb

lige

  1. present subjunctive analytic of lig

Old French

Etymology

Disputed; thought to be of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 494: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "gem" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. origin. See English liege.

Noun

lige oblique singularm (oblique plural liges, nominative singular liges, nominative plural lige)

  1. liege; liegeman; vassal

Descendants

  • English: liege

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *legyom, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (to lie (down)).

Noun

lige n

  1. verbal noun of laigid
  2. lying down, reclining, sleeping
    • c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 85, pages 115-179:
      Nicon fordamar suide nó ligi do fir díob con·gabsat an deorad iterum.
      [Adamnan] did not allow them to sit or lie down unless they receive the stranger again.
  3. bed, couch
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55c19
      Cid in tan no·mbíth inna ligiu, ba ac imrádud chloíne no·bíth.
      Even when he used to be in his bed, he used to be meditating iniquity.
  4. (figuratively) grave
Inflection
Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ligeN ligeL ligeL
Vocative ligeN ligeL ligeL
Accusative ligeN ligeL ligeL
Genitive ligiL ligeL ligeN
Dative ligiuL ligib ligib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Synonyms

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lige f

  1. verbal noun of ligid
  2. licking
Inflection
Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ligeL ligiL ligi
Vocative ligeL ligiL ligi
Accusative ligiN ligiL ligi
Genitive lige ligeL ligeN
Dative ligiL ligib ligib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Turkish

Noun

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  1. dative singular of lig