dég

See also: Appendix:Variations of "deg"

Breton

Numeral

dég

1. ten

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛɡ/

Etymology 1

Truncation of dégoûté

Adjective

dég (plural dégs)

1. (informal) disgusted
2. (informal) disappointed

Etymology 2

Clipping of dégueulasse.

Adjective

dég (plural dégs)

1. (informal) disgusting

Old Irish

Etymology

From di (“from”) +‎ fíach (“debt”), literally "from the debt of".

Preposition

dég (+ genitive)

1. because of, due to, for the sake of
   • 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. 103^b13

     in sechtugud .i. tabairt almsan son ⁊ denum maith amal dund·gniid-si huare ad·ciat-som do·n-indnagar cech maith duibsi deg innanani-sin [leg. inna n-í-sin].

     The deception, i.e. giving alms and doing good, as you do it, because they see that every good thing is given to you because of those things.

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 201^b1

     .i. deg i[n]d ainmnedo hó cho[m]s[uidigud].

     i.e. because of the nominative by composition.

Conjunction

dég

1. because, since
   • c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published in "A study of the lexicon of the poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan" (2017; PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth), edited and with translations by Siobhán Barrett, stanza 36

     Lín a ḟertae maic Dé bí, ní·raisnedat cit ecnae, dég is du híic cech duini do·dechuid mo chlothruiri.

     The number of the son of the living God's miracles, not even sages can tell, because it is for saving every person that my famous King has come.

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 197^a13

     Is díriuch a ndechor deg cinte persana.

     Right is their difference since they define persons.

   • c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 100

     .i. dég ro·bói in spiurt nóib less.

     That is, because the Holy Spirit has been with him.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:sga:ar for synonyms.

Descendants

• Middle Irish: déig

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dég”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language