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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?g, IPA^(key): /??/
• (also) enPR: ?g, IPA^(key): /e??/ (some Canadian and US accents)
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English egge, from Old Norse egg (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajj? (“egg”) (by Holtzmann's law), from Proto-Indo-European *h??wyóm (“egg”). Cognate with Icelandic egg (“egg”), Faroese egg (“egg”), Norwegian egg (“egg”), Swedish ägg (“egg”), Danish æg (“egg”).

The native English ey (plural eyren), akin to Dutch ei (plural eieren) and German Ei (plural Eier) are ultimately from the same Proto-Germanic root, survived into the 16th century before being fully displaced by egg. More at ey.

Alternative forms

• egge (obsolete)

Noun

egg (plural eggs)

1. (zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.
2. (countable, uncountable) The egg of a domestic fowl (especially a hen) or its contents, used as food.

3. (biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.
4. Anything shaped like an egg, such as an Easter egg or a chocolate egg.
5. A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.
6. (slang, mildly derogatory, potentially offensive) A Caucasian who behaves as if they were (East) Asian (from being "white" outside and "yellow" inside).
7. (New Zealand, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.

8. (archaic, derogatory) A young person.
   • 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark:

     What, you egg!

9. (informal) A person, fellow.
   • 1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig

     Up close he looked like a pretty tough egg. His hair was bristling up in the back in spite of what smelled like a whole bottle of Wildroot Creme Oil and he had the flat, oddly shiny eyes that some deep-sea fish have.

10. (LGBT, slang) A person who is regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, has not yet come out, or is in the early stages of transitioning.
    • 2018, Casey Plett, Little Fish (?ISBN), page 24:

      That fits, though, she thought. Wear the same outfit day after day, your brain gets numb to how it looks or feels—Wendy shut the album. No. […] She hated analyzing the whys of [not-out] trans girls. She had always hated it, and she hated how easy it had become; the bottomless hole of egg mode.

11. (computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
    • 2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium

      This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.

12. (Internet slang, derogatory) A user of the microblogging service Twitter who has the default egg avatar rather than a custom picture.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Jamaican Creole: eg
• Sranan Tongo: eksi

Translations

See egg/translations § Noun.

Verb

egg (third-person singular simple present eggs, present participle egging, simple past and past participle egged)

1. To throw eggs at.
2. (cooking) To dip in or coat with beaten egg.
3. To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.

   After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.

Translations

See also

• caviar
• roe

Etymology 2

From Middle English eggen, from Old Norse eggja (“to incite”), from egg (“edge”).

Verb

egg (third-person singular simple present eggs, present participle egging, simple past and past participle egged)

2. (transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite.
   • 14th c., William Langland, Piers Plowman, Passus 1,^[1]

     Þerinne wonieth a wi?te · þat wronge is yhote

     Fader of falshed · and founded it hym-selue

     Adam and Eue · he egged to ille

     Conseilled caym · to kullen his brother

   • 1571, Arthur Golding, The Psalmes of David and others. With M. John Calvins Commentaries, “Epistle Dedicatorie,”^[2]

     […] yit have wee one thing in our selves and of our selves (even originall sinne, concupiscence or lust) which never ceaseth too egge us and allure us from God […]

Derived terms

• egg on
• over-egg

Translations

Further reading

• egg on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (transgender): Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze (2019, ?ISBN), page 98

Anagrams

• GGE, Geg, geg

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *ajj?, from Proto-Indo-European *h??wyóm.

Noun

egg n (genitive singular egs, plural egg)

1. egg

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From the Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *agj?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp, pointed”).

Noun

egg f (genitive singular eggjar, plural eggjar)

1. blade, edge
2. border, edge of a cliff

Declension

German

Pronunciation

Verb

egg

1. singular imperative of eggen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of eggen

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k?/
• Rhymes: -?k?

Etymology 1

From Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *ajj?, from Proto-Indo-European *h??wyóm. Cognate with Old English ?? (obsolete English ey); Swedish ägg; Old High German ei (German Ei).

Noun

egg n (genitive singular eggs, nominative plural egg)

1. (zoology) an egg
2. an oval shaped object
3. the ovum

Declension

Synonyms

• (ovum): eggfruma f

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *agj?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp, pointed”).

Cognates include Old Frisian egg, Old Saxon eggia, Dutch egge; Old English ecg (English edge); Old High German egga (German Ecke); Swedish egg.

The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin aci?s (“edge, sharpness”), Ancient Greek ???? (akís, “point”).

Noun

egg f (genitive singular eggjar, nominative plural eggjar)

1. (weaponry) the sharp edge of a knife, sword, or similar
2. a sharp edge on a mountain

Declension

Synonyms

• (sharp edge): blað
• (mountain): fjallsegg

Derived terms

• fjallsegg
• með oddi og egg/með oddi og eggju

Middle English

Noun

egg

1. Alternative form of egge (“egg”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Hyphenation: egg

Etymology 1

From Old Norse egg n (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajj? (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h??wyóm (“egg”), likely from *h?éwis (“bird”), possibly from *h?ew- (“to enjoy, consume; to perceive, be aware of”).

Cognate with English egg (“egg”), Icelandic egg (“egg”), Faroese egg (“egg”), Swedish ägg (“egg”), Danish æg (“egg”).

Noun

egg n (definite singular egget, indefinite plural egg, definite plural egga or eggene)

1. an egg

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse egg f

Noun

egg f or m (definite singular egga or eggen, indefinite plural egger, definite plural eggene)

1. (cutting) edge (e.g. of a knife)

Derived terms

• tveegget

References

• “egg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “egg_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “egg_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e??/, /???/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse egg n, from Proto-Germanic *ajj?, from Proto-Indo-European *h??wyóm. Akin to English egg.

Noun

egg n (definite singular egget, indefinite plural egg, definite plural egga)

1. an egg

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse egg f, from Proto-Germanic *agj? f (“edge, corner”), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h?e?-. Cognates include English edge and German Ecke.

Noun

egg f or m (definite singular eggen or egga, indefinite plural eggar or egger, definite plural eggane or eggene)

1. an edge (the thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe)
2. (geology) an arête

Inflection

References

• “egg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *ajj?, from Proto-Indo-European *h??wyóm.

Noun

egg n (genitive eggs, plural egg)

1. egg

Declension

Descendants

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *agj?. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp”).

Noun

egg f (genitive eggjar, plural eggjar)

2. edge (of a blade)

Declension

Descendants

References

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic?^[3], Oxford: Clarendon Press

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *agj?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp, pointed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Homophone: ägg

Noun

egg c

1. The sharp edge of a cutting tool.

Declension

Related terms

References

• egg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /e?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d
• Homophone: aide

Etymology 1

From Middle English aide, eide, ayde, from Old French eide, aide, from aidier, from Latin adi?t?, adi?t?re (“to assist, help”). Cognates include Spanish ayuda, Portuguese ajuda and Italian aiuto.

Alternative forms

• aide
• ayde (obsolete)

Noun

aid (countable and uncountable, plural aids)

1. (uncountable) Help; assistance; succor, relief.
   • 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England

     An unconstitutional method of obtaining aid.

   • “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

2. (countable) A helper; an assistant.

   • It is not good that man should bee alone, let vs make vnto him an aide like to himselfe.

3. (countable) Something which helps; a material source of help.

4. (countable, Britain) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
5. (countable, Britain) An exchequer loan.
6. (countable, law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
7. (countable) An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English aiden, from Old French eider, aider, aidier, from Latin adiuto, frequentative of adiuv? (“"assist"”, verb).

Verb

aid (third-person singular simple present aids, present participle aiding, simple past and past participle aided)

1. (transitive) To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
2. (climbing) To climb with the use of aids such as pitons.
   • 1979, American Alpine Journal (page 193)

     Rather than climb into a bottomless off-width crack, we aided an 80-foot A2 to A3 crack to the top of a pedestal. By very tenuous face climbing, we gained entry to the crack, which we followed to a tree beneath the big chimney.

Synonyms

• assist
• befriend
• bestand
• cooperate
• help
• promote
• relieve
• succor
• support
• sustain
• See also Thesaurus:help or Thesaurus:serve

Derived terms

• aidable
• aidance
• aider
• unaided

Related terms

• aidant
• aide-de-camp

Translations

Anagrams

• -iad, Adi, DIA, Dai, Dia, I'd-a, I'da, IAD, Ida, Ida., dai, dia-

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (???id).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??id/

Postposition

aid + dative

1. related to, relating to, having to do with
2. concerning, about

Related terms

• aidiyy?t

References

• “aid” in Obastan.com.

Bau

Noun

aid

1. woman

Further reading

• Hans van der Meer, Bau Organized Phonology Data

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aita.

Noun

aid

1. fence

Panim

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??/

Noun

aid

1. woman

Further reading

• Panim Talking Dictionary

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aita.

Noun

aid

1. fence

Inflection

Derived terms

• aidverai

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????, ????????, ??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aita.

Noun

aid (genitive aia, partitive aida)

1. garden

Inflection