# deg
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɛɡ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛɡ

### Etymology 1

Abbreviations

#### Noun

deg (countable and uncountable, plural degs)
* (mathematics, countable) Abbreviation of degree.
* (motor racing, uncountable) Clipping of degradation.

##### See also

* grad
* rad

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

deg (third-person singular simple present degs, present participle degging, simple past and past participle degged)
* (Northern England, dialectal) To sprinkle, moisten.
** 1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 53:Degged with dew, dappled with dew / Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, / Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, / And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.

### Anagrams

* EDG, EGD, GED, Ged, egd, ged

## Cornish
### Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *deg, from Proto-Celtic *dekam, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

### Numeral

deg
* ten

### Mutation
## Latvian
### Verb

deg
* third-person singular/plural present indicative of degt
* (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of degt
* (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of degt

## Mauritian Creole
### Etymology

From Persian دیگ (dig, “cooking pot”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [deɡ], [dek]

### Noun

deg
* large cooking pot

#### Derived terms

* degti

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dæj/
* Homophone: deig
* Rhymes: -æj

### Pronoun

deg
* (personal) thee, you; object form of du
* (also deg selv) yourself

#### See also

| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | Possessive | Possessive | Possessive |
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | feminine | masculine | neuter | plural |
| Singular | First | – | jeg | meg | mi | min | mitt | mine |
| Singular | Second | general | du | deg | di | din | ditt | dine |
| Singular | Second | formal (rare) | De | Dem | Deres | Deres | Deres | Deres |
| Singular | Third | feminine (person) | hun | henne | hennes | hennes | hennes | hennes |
| Singular | Third | masculine (person) | han | ham / han | hans | hans | hans | hans |
| Singular | Third | feminine (noun) | den | den | dens | dens | dens | dens |
| Singular | Third | masculine (noun) | den | den | dens | dens | dens | dens |
| Singular | Third | neuter (noun) | det | det | dets | dets | dets | dets |
| Singular | Third | reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine |
| Plural | First | – | vi | oss | vår | vår | vårt | våre |
| Plural | Second | general | dere | dere | deres | deres | deres | deres |
| Plural | Second | formal (very rare) | De | Dem | Deres | Deres | Deres | Deres |
| Plural | Third | general | de | dem | deres | deres | deres | deres |
| Plural | Third | reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine |

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse þik.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /deːɡ/

### Pronoun

deg
* objective case of du

#### See also
### References

* “deg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dej/

### Noun

deġ m (Mercian, Kentish)
* Alternative form of dæġ

## Somali
### Noun

deg f
* ear

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish dēgher, from Old Norse deig, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, to mold, to form”).
Compare Norwegian Bokmål deig, Norwegian Nynorsk deig, Icelandic deig, Faroese deiggj, Danish dej.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /deːɡ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

deg c
* dough; a thick mix of flour and water
* (uncountable, slang) dough (money)

#### Related terms

* digna

#### See also

* smet

### References

* deg in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* deg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* deg in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Volapük
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /deɡ/

### Numeral

deg
* ten
** 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 19:Hifeilan at dalabom jevodis tel e kunis deg.This farmer owns two horses and ten cows.

#### Synonyms

* bals (obsolete, Original Volapük)

#### Derived terms

* degid

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /deːɡ/
* Rhymes: -eːɡ

### Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh deg, from Proto-Brythonic *deg, from Proto-Celtic *dekam, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

#### Alternative forms

* deng

#### Numeral

deg
* (cardinal number) ten

#### Noun

deg m (plural degau)
* ten

#### Derived terms

* decplyg (“tenfold”)
* degfed (“tenth”)
* degol (“decimal”)

#### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

#### References

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

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

deg
* Soft mutation of teg.

#### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.