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ergi

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See also: Ergi

Finnish

Etymology

From English erg.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈerɡi/, [ˈe̞rɡi]
  • Rhymes: -erɡi
  • Syllabification(key): er‧gi
  • Hyphenation(key): er‧gi

Noun

ergi

  1. erg (unit)

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...
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Italian

Pronunciation

Verb

ergi

  1. inflection of ergere:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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)

  1. the state of being argr; variously translated as lewdness, perversity, effeminacydegeneracy

Declension

More information feminine, singular ...

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

  • (Jiezi, Gaizi, Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA(key): [erki]

Adjective

ergi

  1. early
  2. old
  • ehte (tomorrow)
  • er (morning)

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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