Etymograph

English

lagg

Lagg may come from Swedish lagg ‘moist, marshy area around a bog’.

  1. Swedishmodernlagg‘moist, marshy area around a bog’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1988same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Swedishmodernlagg‘moist, marshy area around a bog’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1988same form

Earliest quotation: 1988, Heinz Ellenberg, Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe: “Whenever one wants to get to a typical raised…”

The story

Most likely from Swedish lagg (‘moist, marshy area around a bog’), though compare the dialectal (Sussex, Somerset) English term(s) lag ("long, narrow, marshy meadow, usually by the side of a stream") and leg ("long, narrow meadow, gen. one which runs out of a larger piece of land"), apparently from leg (‘limb’) (as of a body, or body of water). (Compare also Middle English lech(e) (‘sluggish stream flowing through bog; bog’), usually attested with ch (whence English letch), but infrequently found as leg, lage in names.)

Every English word from Swedish lagg

Today it means

noun Waterlogged, marshy area around the perimeter of a (raised) bog, where water collects.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Swedish lagg / lagg

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