Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To fasten using a peg. · To affix or pin. · To fix a value or price. · To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects. · A protrusion used to hang things on. · A support; a reason; a pretext. · A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
From Middle English pegge, from Middle Dutch pegge (“pin, peg”), from Old Dutch *pigg-, *pegg-, from Proto-Germanic *pig-, *pag- (“peg, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *baḱ- (“club, pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Dutch dialectal peg (“pin”), Low German pig, pigge (“peg, stick with a point”), Low German pegel (“post, stake”), Swedish pigg (“tooth, spike”), Danish pig (“spike”), Norwegian Bokmål pigg (“spike”), Irish bac (“stick, crook”), Latin baculum (“staff”), Latvian bakstît (“to poke”), Ancient Greek βάκτρον (báktron, “staff, walking stick”). Related to beak. This is one of the very few English words that begin with a p and come from Proto-Germanic. Proto-Germanic *p, when not in a consonant cluster beginning with *s, developed by Grimm's law from the Proto-Indo-European consonant *b, which was very rare. (To indicate or ascribe an attribute to): Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list.
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- Inherited-form mentionpeggeenm
- Derivation mentionpeggedum
- Derivation mention*pigg-odt
- Derivation mention*pig-gem-pro
- Derivation mention*bak-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionpignds
- Cognate mentionpegelnds
- Cognate mentionpiggsv
- Cognate mentionpigda
- Cognate mentionpiggnb
- Cognate mentionbacga
- Cognate mentionbaculumla
- Cognate mentionbakstîtlv
- Cognate mentionβάκτρονgrc
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