lagg
/ˈlæɡ/
lagg noun: waterlogged, marshy area around the perimeter of a (raised) bog, where water collects.
Noun
lagg (plural 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.1988, Heinz Ellenberg, Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, page 329
- Surface-water inflow is now largely confined to the lagg, or moat, often surrounding a bog's outer margins.1995, John Eastman, The Book of Swamp & Bog, page 124
Forms of lagg
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Origin of lagg
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.)
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Questions about lagg
- What does lagg mean?
- Lagg means waterlogged, marshy area around the perimeter of a (raised) bog, where water collects.
- What part of speech is lagg?
- Lagg is a noun.
- How do you pronounce lagg?
- Lagg is pronounced /ˈlæɡ/.
- What is the plural of lagg?
- The plural of lagg is laggs.
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