Noun: beag
Gender:
Nominative
| Singular | bēag |
| Plural | bēagas |
Genitive
| Singular | bēages |
| Plural | bēaga |
Dative
| Singular | bēage |
| Plural | bēagum |
Accusative
| Singular | bēag |
| Plural | bēagas |
Sample Sentences
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c. 897, King Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care
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Sē þe ūs ġehǣlþ fram þām stiċe ūrra synna, hē ġeþafode þæt him man sette þyrnenne bēag on þæt hēafod. (The person who heals us from the stabs of our sins allowed a crown of thorns to be placed on his head.)
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Late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 38:18 (Judah asked, "What do you want to take as a pledge?" She said, "Your ring and your armlet and your staff that you have in your hand.")
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *baug, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz, derived from *beuganą (“to bend”). Cognate with Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Old High German boug, and Old Norse baugr. See: Old Norse Nouns '
baugr'.
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