leg – English noun declension

English noun forms of leg

Noun: leg
Singularleg
Plurallegs

Sample Sentences

  • Insects have six legs.
  • Dan won't be able to come to the party, since he broke his leg last week and is now on crutches.
  • The left leg of these jeans has a tear.
  • the legs of a chair or table
  • This observation is an important leg of my argument.
  • After six days, we're finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip.
  • They were travelling on the last leg of a trip which was supposed to end in Hawaii. [2026 July 28, Nicholas Muhoro, “The Open Water True Story: How Tom and Eileen Lonergan Were Left Behind at Sea”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2026:]
  • A stunning performance from the Republic of Ireland all but sealed progress to Euro 2012 as they crushed nine-man Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the qualifying play-off tie in A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn. [2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, in RTE Sport:]
  • This proposal has no legs. Almost everyone opposes it.
  • I’m trying to go with my head and focus on the first guy, because this could be a relationship with legs. [2020 February 2, “One is a great guy; the other is good in bed. So who do I choose?”, in The Guardian:]
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  • Ponsonby-Smythe hit a thumping drive through the leg fielders.
  • Which was lower than whale shit in the eyes of any paratrooper; it would have been a disgrace to be a leg. [2019, Elliot Murphy, A Vietnam Story, page 94:]
  • Hickman came in, making his legs, and stroking his cravat and ruffles. [1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXXIV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC:]
  • A leg is one column of a story. It has two legs if it is set in two columns and three legs if it is set in three columns. Avoid legs longer than 10 inches and shorter than 1 inch. [2015, Homer L. Hall, Megan Fromm, Aaron Manfull, Student Journalism & Media Literacy, page 266:]
  • The street was deserted. We acted quickly. Josiah gave me a leg. I threw my jacket over the broken glass […] [1902, The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 21, page 737:]
  • If one leg from your 2-way parlay pushes and the other wins, your parlay bet wins and is paid off as if it's a straight bet (paying -110 or whatever the odds were). [2020, Swain Scheps, Sports Betting For Dummies, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 265:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English leg, legge, from Old Norse leggr (“leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjaz, *lagwijaz (“leg, thigh”) (see it for more).
2. Cognate with Scots leg (“leg”), Icelandic leggur (“leg, limb”), Norwegian Bokmål legg (“leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk legg (“leg”), Swedish lägg (“leg, shank, shaft”), Danish læg (“leg”), Lombardic lagi (“thigh, shank, leg”), Latin lacertus (“limb, arm”), Persian لنگ (leng). Upon borrowing, mostly displaced the native Old English term sċanca (Modern English shank). See: Middle English Nouns 'leg', Old Norse Nouns 'leggr', Icelandic Nouns 'leggur', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'legg', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'legg', Swedish Nouns 'lägg', Danish Nouns 'læg', Latin Nouns 'lacertus'.

Verbs referencing "leg"

Finnish Nouns legi, Icelandic Nouns leggur, Danish Nouns læg, Latin Nouns lacca.