lagg
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lagg
- /ˈlæɡ/
- [ˈlæɡ]
- /ˈleɪ̯ɡ/
- [ˈleɪ̯ɡ]
Sounds like lag, leg (pre-/ɡ/-tensing) · Rhymes with -æɡ
Where it comes from
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.)
noun laggs
- Waterlogged, marshy area around the perimeter of a (raised) bog, where water collects. Whenever one wants to get to a typical raised bog one usually has to wade through the more or less waterlogged lagg. On the bog itself in dry weather one could walk about in light shoes without getting one's feet wet.
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title = {lagg},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
