li・gの英語

語源 1

From 中期英語 liggen, from 古期英語 liċġan (“to lie, be situated, be at rest, remain”) and Old Norse liggja (“to lie”). More at lie.

動詞

lig (third-person singular simple present ligs, present participle ligging, simple past ligged or lag or lay, past participle ligged or lag or lay or laggen or lain)

1. (intransitive, Yorkshire, Cumbria, Teesdale) To lie; be in a prostrate or recumbent position.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     His limbes would rest, ne lig in ease embost

2. (transitive, Yorkshire, Cumbria, Teesdale) To lay.
3. (intransitive, slang) To be a ligger or hanger-on; to freeload.
   • 1991, Blues & Soul (issues 589-601, page 32)

     […] but within the confines of the music business it means the pinnacle of a career dedicated to ligging […]

派生語

• lig down
• lig on
• lig out

関連する語

• ligger

語源 2

Probably from 中期英語 *ligge, from Old Norse lygi (“a lie”), from Proto-Germanic *lugį̄ (“lie, falsehood”). Cognate with 古期英語 lyġe and lyġen.

名詞

lig (plural ligs)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A lie; an untruth.
   • 1867, James Torrington Spencer Lidstone, The Fourteenth Londoniad, page 85:

     And the Muse of Arts that never told a lig, / Whirls in her mid-air flight to sing of Twigg; […]

参照

• (untruth): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

アナグラム

• GIL, Gil, IGL@, Ilg, LGI, gli-

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *laugi, from Proto-Germanic *laugiz (“fire, flame, lightning”), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“light; white; to shine”). Cognate with Old High German loug, Old Norse lǫygr, log, loga (“flame, low”). More at low.

発音

• IPA: /liːj/
• 韻: -iːj

名詞

līġ m (nominative plural līgas)

1. fire; flame

   līġbǣre ― flaming

   līġcwalu ― fiery torment

   līġdraca ― fiery dragon

   līġræscetung ― lightning

   līġȳþ ― wave of fire

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生した語

• Middle English: lye, lei, lyȝ