# -eg
## Breton
### Etymology

Akin to Welsh -eg.

### Suffix

-eg
* Used to form languages or dialects; -ish, -ic
    ‎Gall (“Frenchman”) + ‎-eg → ‎galleg (“French language”)
    ‎Leon (“Léon”) + ‎-eg → ‎leoneg (“Léon dialect”)

#### See also
### References

* Ian Press (1986) A grammar of modern Breton, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 217

## Emilian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eɡ/

### Pronoun

-eg
* (enclitic, after a consonant) Alternative form of ge
    J-eg vān edmān. ― They go there tomorrow. (imperative, singular)
    J-eg dān da fêr. ― They give her trouble.

#### Related terms

| Number | Person | Gender | Proclitic | Proclitic | Proclitic | Proclitic | Enclitic | Enclitic | Enclitic | Enclitic | Aphetic | Aphetic | Aphetic | Aphetic |
| Number | Person | Gender | N | A | D | R | N | A | D | R | N | A | D | R |
| Singular | First | — | aj- | m’ | m’ | m’ | -ja | -em | -em | -em | -ja | -m | -m | -m |
| Singular | Second | — | t- | t’ | t’ | t’ | -et | -et | -et | -et | -t | -t | -t | -t |
| Singular | Third | Masculine | l- | l- | g’ | s’ | -el | -el | -eg | -es | -l | -l | -g | -s |
| Singular | Third | Feminine | l’ | l’ | g’ | s’ | -la | -la | -eg | -es | -la | -la | | -g | -s |
| Plural | First | — | aj- | s’ | s’ | s’ | -ja | -es | -es | -es | -ja | -s | -s | -s |
| Plural | Second | — | aj- | v’ | v’ | v’ | -ev | -ev | -ev | -ev | -v | -v | -v | -v |
| Plural | Third | Masculine | j- | j- | g’ | s’ | -i | -i | -eg | -es | -j | -j | -g | -s |
| Plural | Third | Feminine | elj- | elj- | g’ | s’ | -li | -li | -eg | -es | -li | -li | | -g | -s |

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From -e- (linking vowel) +‎ -g (frequentative and nominal-forming suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɛɡ]

### Suffix

-eg
* (frequentative suffix) Added to a stem - often an onomatopoeia - to form a verb expressing a (quickly) repeating or continuous action.
    ketyeg (“to tick (like a clock)”)
* (nominal-forming suffix) Added to a verb or a stem to form a noun or an adjective.
    ‎töm (“to stuff”) + ‎-eg → ‎tömeg (“mass”)
    ‎sző (“to weave”) + ‎-eg → ‎szöveg (“text”)
    ‎lő (“to shoot, to fire”) + ‎-eg → ‎löveg (“cannon, gun”)
    hideg (“cold”)

#### Usage notes

* (frequentative suffix) Variants:
    -g is added to words ending in a vowel
    -og is added to some back-vowel words
    -ag is added to other back-vowel words
    -eg is added to unrounded front-vowel words
    -ög is added to rounded front-vowel words
* (nominal-forming suffix) Variants:
    -g is added to words ending in a vowel
    -ag is added to back-vowel words
    -eg is added to front-vowel words

#### See also

* Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

## Luxembourgish
### Etymology

From Old High German -ag, -ig, from Proto-Germanic *-agaz, *-īgaz, *-ugaz, each a variant of a common suffix *-gaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eχ/, [əɕ]

### Suffix

-eg
* -y, forming adjectives from nouns or verb stems

#### Derived terms
## Middle English
### Suffix

-eg
* Alternative form of -y (“-y”)

## Old English
### Suffix

-eġ
* Alternative form of -iġ.

## Welsh
### Etymology

Proto-Celtic *-ikā f.

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA: /ɛɡ/
** (North Wales, colloquial) IPA: /aɡ/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ɛɡ/

### Suffix

-eg
* a language, -ic, -ish
    ‎Llydaw (“Brittany”) + ‎-eg → ‎Llydaweg (“Breton language”)
    ‎Gwyddel (“Irishman”) + ‎-eg → ‎Gwyddeleg (“Irish language”)
    ‎Indonesia (“Indonesia”) + ‎-eg → ‎Indoneseg (“Indonesian language”)
* a science, a study, -y, -ics
    Synonym: -leg
    ‎peiriant (“machine, engine”) + ‎-eg → ‎peirianneg (“engineering”)
    ‎rheswm (“reason”) + ‎-eg → ‎rhesymeg (“logic”)
    ‎electron (“electron”) + ‎-eg → ‎electroneg (“electronics”)

#### Usage notes

The suffix -eg is feminine but when it refers to a language, the resulting derived does not cause the soft mutation of qualifying adjectives as other feminine nouns do, especially when the adjective defines a specific or specialised kind of language.

#### Derived terms
### References

* ↑ Thomas, Peter Wynn, Gramadeg y Gymraeg, →ISBN, page 650

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “-eg”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies