Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land. · In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle. · The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle. · A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”) (see it for more). Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian لنگ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank).
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- Inherited-form mentionlegenm
- Derivation mentionleggrnon · leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk
- Derivation mention*lagjazgem-pro
- Cognate mentionlegsco
- Cognate mentionlegguris
- Cognate mentionleggnb
- Cognate mentionleggnn
- Cognate mentionläggsv
- Cognate mentionlægda
- Cognate mentionlacertusla
- Cognate mentionلنگfa
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