lygen – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of lygen

Noun: lygen
Gender:

Nominative

Singularlyġen
Plurallyġenna; lyġenne

Genitive

Singularlyġenne
Plurallyġenna

Dative

Singularlyġenne
Plurallyġennum

Accusative

Singularlyġenne
Plurallyġenna; lyġenne

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like lygen

lygen, byrgen, hengen, wyrgen, wiergen,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *luginu, from Proto-Germanic *luginō, *lugį̄ (“lie, falsehood”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewgʰ- (“to tell lies, swear, bemoan”). Cognate with Old Saxon lugina (“falsehood”), Danish løgn (“lie”), Norwegian lygn (“lie”). More at lie. See: Danish Nouns 'løgn'.

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