Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane. · To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position. · To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced. · To fail to sustain interest; to be boring.
The state of sinking or bending; a droop. · A depression or dip in anything. · A place where the surface of the earth, a mountain range, a ridge, etc., sinks or droops. · The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points.
From earlier sag, sagg, sack, from Middle English saggen, probably from Middle Low German sacken (“to sink, drift”), ultimately of North Germanic/Scandinavian/Old Norse origin, akin to Old Norse søkkva (“to sink”), a denasalized derivative of Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną (“to cause to sink”), related to Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną (“to sink”). Cognate with Scots seg (“to sink”), Danish sakke (“to lag behind”), Swedish sacka (“to lag”), Icelandic sakka (“to sink”), Faroese søkka (“to sink, drop down, descend, set”), Dutch zakken (“to fall, drop, sink”), German Low German sacken (“to sink”), and German sacken (“to sink”) (from Low German). Compare also Norwegian Nynorsk sagga (“to walk or move heavily and slowly”).
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- Inherited-form mentionsaggenenm
- Derivation mentionsackengml · to sink, drift
- Cognate mentionsøkkvanon · to sink
- Derivation mention*sankwijanągem-pro · to cause to sink
- Cognate mention*sinkwanągem-pro · to sink
- Cognate mentionsegsco · to sink
- Cognate mentionsakkeda · to lag behind
- Cognate mentionsackasv · to lag
- Cognate mentionsakkais · to sink
- Cognate mentionsøkkafo · to sink, drop down, descend, set
- Cognate mentionzakkennl · to fall, drop, sink
- Cognate mentionsackende · to sink
- Cognate mentionsaggann · to walk or move heavily and slowly
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