logge – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of logge

Noun: logge
Sg.logge
Pl.logges; loggen

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • 1398, Bartholomeus Anglicus's De Proprietatibus Rerum translated by John Trevisa
  • He bloweþ and bereþ blosseme wiþoute undersettyng, but þe fruyt þerof fayleþ and roteþ but he be rered up fro þe grounde and ytrayled wiþ loggis and ȝerdis as it were a vyne.
  • …fine appodiatione florere potest, sed fructus eius vix proficit, imo deficit vel putrescit, quando ad modum vineae a terra non erigitur, et lignis vel virgulis non sustentatur.
  • It blew and blossomed without undersettings, but its fruits failed and rotted, so supports are needed anyway to raise them from the ground and uphold with staffs and rods, as if it were a vine.
  • And þe olyve wol nouȝt be harde ybete wiþ staves and logges to gadre þe fruyt þerof, as some men doon þat ben unredy and unwyse…
  • …nec vult olea percuti graviter cum perticis pro suo fructu colligendo, sicut faciunt aliqui minus cauti…
  • And the olive is not to be hard-beaten with staves and poles to gather its fruits, as some men who have done that were unready and unwise…
  • Item, we have payde for raftur loggys and a post VII d. ob. … we have payde for hewying of yem … II d. (Moreover, we have paid for rafter logs and a wooden post 7½ pence … we have paid for hewing them … 2 pence) [1448, Churchwardens' Accounts of the Parish of St. Mary:]

Etymology

1. Unknown, but probably connected to Middle English lugge (“pole”), from which obsolete/dialectal English lugg, lug (“pole; measure of length ~6 yd.; measure of land ~50 sq. yd.”). Cf. also clogge (“log”), clog.
2. Ending on -g may suggest Scandinavian origin, which has been proposed, from Old Norse lág (whence Norwegian Nynorsk låg (“fallen tree”)). However, the Norse vowel is long while Middle English vowel is short.
3. Discounting 13th-century surname Log, first attested as Medieval Latin loggiandum (“woodcutting”) in 1205 (in Rotuli litterarum clausarum), then Medieval Latin loggum (“piece of wood”) in 1306 (in Muniments of Dean and Chapter of Canterbury), while in actual ME attested only since 1398. See: Middle English Nouns 'lugge', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'låg'.

Verbs referencing "logge"

French Nouns loch, English Nouns log, English Nouns lodge, English Nouns logge, English Nouns logg.

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