lige
English
Verb
lige (third-person singular simple present liges, present participle liging, simple past and past participle liged)
- (obsolete) To lie; to tell lies.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lige in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
Danish
Adjective
lige
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /liʒ/
Adjective
lige (plural liges)
Further reading
- “lige” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈl̠ʲɪɟə]
Verb
lige
- present subjunctive analytic of lig
Old French
Etymology
Disputed; thought to be of Germanic origin. See English liege.
Noun
lige m (oblique plural liges, nominative singular liges, nominative plural lige)
Descendants
- English: liege (borrowed)
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈl͈ʲiɣʲe/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Celtic *legyom, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie (down)”).
Noun
lige n
- verbal noun of laigid
- lying down, reclining, sleeping
- (of the sun) setting
- (of birds) perching
- bed, couch
- (of dogs) kennel, lair
- (figuratively) grave
Inflection
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Synonyms
Etymology 2
Noun
lige f
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Turkish
Noun
lige
- dative singular of lig