Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To cause to have, or to develop, a ledge (during mining, canal construction, building, etc).
A narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface. · A shelf on which articles may be laid. · A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks. · A layer or stratum.
From Middle English legge, from Old English leċġ (“bar, crossbeam”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggju (“layer, strip, ledge, rung, bar”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjō (“layer, stratum”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, recline”). Cognate with West Frisian lêch (“a layer of sheaves on a threshing floor”), Dutch leg (“layer”), German Low German Legg (“wrinkle, fold, flat layer, stratum”), Middle High German legge, lecke (“position, layer, stratum, tier; pleat, hem”). Related to Middle English leggen (“to lay, apply”), from Old English leċġan (“to lay”); and Old English *ġeleċġ (“positioning, arrangement, layout”) as in Old English limġeleċġ (“the disposition of the limbs, form, shape”). More at lay.
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- Inherited-form mentionleggeenm
- Inherited-form mentionleċġang · bar, crossbeam
- Inherited-form mention*laggjugmw-pro · layer, strip, ledge, rung, bar
- Inherited-form mention*lagjōgem-pro · layer, stratum
- Derivation mention*legʰ-ine-pro · to lie, recline
- Cognate mentionlêchfy · a layer of sheaves on a threshing floor
- Cognate mentionlegnl · layer
- Cognate mentionleggegmh
- Cognate mentionleggenenm · to lay, apply
- Cognate mentionleċġanang · to lay
- Cognate mention*ġeleċġang · positioning, arrangement, layout
- Cognate mentionlimġeleċġang · the disposition of the limbs, form, shape
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