Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.
To store in a keg. · The pulling down of someone's trousers or kegs, oftentimes as a kind of bullying or prank.
From Middle English kag, from Old Norse kaggi (“keg”), likely a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kagô (“bush, branch, stalk, stump”). Cognate with Icelandic kaggi (“keg; cask”), Norwegian kagg (“keg”), Swedish kagge (“keg”), Low German kag (“vessel; craft”), Dutch kaag (“vessel; craft”). Compare also English cag and chag. The modern form keg with /ɛ/ is due to a dialectal raising of /a///æ/ to /ɛ/ before velars (cf. fleg); the expected form is preserved in dialectal /kæɡ/, while /keɪɡ/ reflects further raising that occurred in some dialects.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionkagenm
- Derivation mentionkagginon · keg
- Derivation mention*kagôgem-pro · bush, branch, stalk, stump
- Cognate mentionkaggiis · keg; cask
- Cognate mentionkaggno · keg
- Cognate mentionkaggesv · keg
- Cognate mentionkagnds · vessel; craft
- Cognate mentionkaagnl · vessel; craft
- Cognate mentioncagen
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