deug

• IPA^(key): /dɪø̯χ/

From Dutch deugd, from Middle Dutch dōget, from Old Dutch *dugeth, from Proto-Germanic *dugunþō (“usefulness, virtue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ- (“to be ready, be sufficient”).

deug (plural deugde)

1. virtue

• ondeug

From Dutch deugen, from Middle Dutch dōgen, from Old Dutch dugan, from Proto-Germanic *duganą.

deug (present deug, present participle deugende, past participle gedeug)

1. (intransitive) to be appropriate, to be adequate, to be fitting
2. (intransitive) to be decent, to be virtuous

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• Rhymes: -øːx

deug

1. inflection of deugen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

If related to Welsh diod (“drink”), from Proto-Celtic *dīātis, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”). Alternatively related to *dʰǵʰúHs (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ- (“liquid”).

• IPA^(key): /dʲeu̯ɣ/

deug f (genitive dige)

1. drink
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 27^a24

     Nachib·mided .i. nachib·berar i smachtu rechta fetarlicce, inna ndig et a mbiad, inna llíthu et a ssapati, act bad foirbthe far n‑iress.

     Let him not judge you, i.e. do not be borne into the institutions of the Law of the Old Testament, into their drink and their food, into their festivals and their sabbaths; but let your faith be perfect.

2. draught
3. potion

• Middle Irish: deog, deoch
  • Irish: deoch
  • Manx: jough
  • Scottish Gaelic: deoch

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “deog, deoch”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• dheug

From Middle Irish déc, from Old Irish deec, deac, from Proto-Celtic *dekam-kʷe (literally “and ten”), with loss of the first k by dissimilation.[1] Cognate with Irish déag and Manx jeig.

• IPA^(key): /tʲiək/, /tʃiək/

deug

1. -teen

• Used not as a suffix but as a separate word:

  ochd ― eight

  ochd deug ― eighteen

• deich - ten