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See also: Ergi
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ergi
- erg (unit)
Declension
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Italian
Pronunciation
Verb
ergi
- inflection of ergere:
Anagrams
Old Norse
Alternative forms
- regi — with metathesis
Etymology
Formally from Proto-Germanic *argį̄. Proto-Norse ᛡᚱᛡᚷᛖᚢ (ᴀrᴀgeu /arᵃgju/) (dative/instrumental singular) appears to be a jōn-stem noun, but may still be ancestral to ergi if the declension were irregularly changed. By surface analysis, argr (“effeminate, shameful, homosexual”) + -i (“-ness”, abstract noun suffix).
Noun
ergi f (genitive ergi)
- the state of being argr; variously translated as lewdness, perversity, effeminacy, degeneracy
Declension
Further reading
- Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “ergi”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “ergi”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
Salar
Etymology
Compare to Khakas иргі (irgì).
Pronunciation
Adjective
ergi
Related terms
References
- Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “ergi”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 326
- Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “ergi”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 89
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