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- Title
SOG, SOGGY: ETYMOLOGY.
- Authors
Sayers, William
- Abstract
The article discusses the meaning of verb 'Sog' and the words related to it. The meaning for the obsolete verb 'sog' is to become soaked or saturated with wet; to sink in; to steep, soak, saturate. The comparable meanings for the nominal form sog are a soft or marshy piece of ground; a swamp; bog quagmire. The dialectal Norwegian verbs for sog are soggjast, soggast with the meaning to become soaked. In old and middle Irish, the noun sug was used for liquids inherent in bodies of various kinds as the sap or juice of plants, blood. It was also used to describe the saturated earth.
- Subjects
VERBS; ETYMOLOGY; NOUNS; VOCABULARY; MARSHES; SAP (Plant)
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2004, Vol 51, Issue 2, p124
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/510124