# lagg
## English
### Etymology

Compare the dialectal (Sussex, Somerset) English term(s) lag ("long, narrow, marshy meadow, usually by the side of a stream") and leg ("long, narrow meadow, gen. one which runs out of a larger piece of land"), apparently from leg (“limb”) (as of a body, or body of water). Compare also Middle English lech(e) (“sluggish stream flowing through bog; bog”), usually attested with ch (whence English letch), but infrequently found as leg, lage in names.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /læɡ/

### Noun

lagg (plural laggs)
* The very wet area around the perimeter of a (raised) bog, where water collects.
    Coordinate term: rand
** 1988, Heinz Ellenberg, Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, page 329:Whenever one wants to get to a typical raised bog one usually has to wade through the more or less waterlogged lagg. On the bog itself in dry weather one could walk about in light shoes without getting one's feet wet.
** 1995, John Eastman, The Book of Swamp & Bog, page 124:Surface-water inflow is now largely confined to the lagg, or moat, often surrounding a bog's outer margins.

### See also

* fen, morass, see more in swamp

### References

* ↑ Joseph Wright, editor (1902), “LAG”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume III (H–L), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC. Joseph Wright, editor (1902), “LEG”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume III (H–L), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.
* ↑ Namely, in Cauleg in 1352 and Caulage in 1479 (in A. Mawer, The Place-Names of Northumberland and Durham (1920), 42, as cited in the Middle English Dictionary.

## Gothic
### Romanization

lagg
* Romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌲

## Manx
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *luggo-, from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”), see also Greek λυγίζω (lygízo, “bend”), Irish lag (“pit, hollow”).

### Adjective

lagg
* hollow

#### Derived terms

* lagg-hooillagh (“hollow-eyed”, adjective)

### References

* MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “lagg”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page lag

## Swedish
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse lagg (“barrel stave, split piece of wood”), from Proto-Germanic *lawwd, from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to sever, cut apart, loosen”).

#### Noun

lagg c
* a pancake griddle
* a batch of pancakes or the like
* a lag (stave in a wooden vessel)
    Synonym: tunnstav
* (colloquial, usually in the plural) a ski
    Synonym: skida

##### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | lagg | laggs |
| singular | definite | laggen | laggens |
| plural | indefinite | laggar | laggars |
| plural | definite | laggarna | laggarnas |

##### Derived terms

* laggkärl
* pannkakslagg
* plättlagg
* våffellagg

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English lag.

#### Noun

lagg n
* (computing) lag

##### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | lagg | laggs |
| singular | definite | lagget | laggets |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| plural | definite | — | — |

##### Related terms

* lagga

### References

* lagg in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* lagg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* lagg in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* ↑ “lagg”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.