different between liage vs lige

English

Etymology

Compare Old French liage (“a bond”). See liable.

Noun

liage

1. (obsolete) Union by league; alliance.

Anagrams

• Eliga, agile

Middle English

Noun

liage

1. Alternative form of lege (“liege”)

Adjective

liage

1. Alternative form of lege (adjective)

Old French

Etymology

lier +? -age.

Noun

liage m (oblique plural liages, nominative singular liages, nominative plural liage)

1. link; tie; bond (something used to link two or more things together)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (liage)

English

Verb

lige (third-person singular simple present liges, present participle liging, simple past and past participle liged)

1. (obsolete) To lie; to tell lies.

Anagrams

• Egli, Geil, Gile, Lieg, glei

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?li??], [?li?i]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse líki, from Proto-Germanic *gal?kô, cognate with Old English ?el?ca (English like) and Old High German gil?hho (German seinesgleichen). Definite form of the adjective *gal?kaz (“same, like”)

Noun

lige (uninflected)

1. like, match

Etymology 2

Originally the definite form of lig.

Adjective

lige (uninflected)

1. straight, not bent
2. equal
3. (mathematics, of an integer) even (being of the form ${\displaystyle 2n}$, where ${\displaystyle n}$ is an integer)
4. (mathematics, of a function) even (such that ${\displaystyle f(x)=f(-x)}$)

Coordinate terms

• ulige

Etymology 3

From Old Norse líka, from Proto-Germanic *gal?kê, cognate with English like, German gleich. Adverb from the adjective Proto-Germanic *gal?kaz (“same, like”), see lig.

Adverb

lige

1. just, recently
2. just, merely, simply
3. just, exactly

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?/

Adjective

lige (plural liges)

1. liege

Further reading

• “lige” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?????]

Verb

lige

1. present subjunctive analytic of lig

Old French

Etymology

Disputed; thought to be of Germanic origin. See English liege.

Noun

lige m (oblique plural liges, nominative singular liges, nominative plural lige)

1. liege; liegeman; vassal

Descendants

• ? English: liege

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??i??e/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *legyom, from Proto-Indo-European *leg?- (“to lie (down)”).

Noun

lige n

1. verbal noun of laigid
2. lying down, reclining, sleeping
   • c. 815-840, published in "The Monastery of Tallaght", in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1911-1912, Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Edward J. Gwynn and Walter J. Purton, vol. 29, pp. 115–179, paragraph 85,

3. bed, couch
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55^c19

4. (figuratively) grave

Inflection

Synonyms

• (bed): dérgud, imdae, lepaid, sceng

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lige f

1. verbal noun of ligid
2. licking

Inflection

Mutation

Turkish

Noun

lige

1. dative singular of lig