sog
Translingual
English
Etymology
Of uncertain origin. Possibly of North Germanic origin (compare Icelandic söggur (“moist”), dialectal Norwegian søgg (“moist”), dialectal Swedish sögg, sygg (“something moist”)), from Old Norse söggr (“dank, wet”), from Proto-Germanic *sawwijaz, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *sawwą (“moisture, sap, juice”), related to Old English ġesēaw (“full of moisture, soaked”), Old English sēaw (“moisture, juice, humour”).[1] The verb is possibly related to soak.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɒɡ/
- Rhymes: -ɒɡ
Audio (UK) (file)
Verb
sog (third-person singular simple present sogs, present participle sogging, simple past and past participle sogged)
- (transitive) To soak, steep or saturate.
- 1983 [1898], J. Arthur Gibbs, “The Language of the Cotswolds, with Some Ancient Songs and Legends”, in A Cotswold Village, or Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire, 3rd edition, London: Breslich & Foss, →ISBN, page 84:
- Two red-coated sportsmen, while hunting close to our village the other day, got into a small but deep pond. They were said to have fallen into the “stank,” and got “zogged” through: for a small pond is a “stank,” and to be “zogged” is equivalent to being soaked.
- (intransitive) To be soaked, steeped or saturated.
Derived terms
References
- “sog”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch zog or zoog, dialectal variants of zeug, from Middle Dutch soge, suege, from Old Dutch *soga, from Proto-West Germanic *sugu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɔχ/
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German
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɔːɣ/
- Rhymes: -ɔːɣ
Declension
Anagrams
Old Norse
Etymology
Perhaps from an earlier Proto-Germanic *sugą, being affected by a-umlaut. Anyhow related to súga.
Declension
Volapük
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /soɡ/
Declension
Derived terms
- sogäd