peg – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to peg away
Participle: pegged away
Gerund: pegging away

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	peg away
we	Let's peg away
you	peg away

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to identify by or divide into classes

brand, categorize, classify, compartmentalise, distribute, divide, estimate, evaluate, gauge, judge, label, measure, pigeonhole, sort, subdivide

fasten

tighten, secure, clinch, drive, insert, imbed, join

Antonyms

fasten

unfasten, loosen, loose, release

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. From Middle English pegge, from Middle Dutch pegge (“pin, peg”), from Old Dutch *pigg-, *pegg-, from Proto-Germanic *pig-, *pag- (“peg, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *baḱ- (“club, pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Dutch dialectal peg (“pin”), Low German pig, pigge (“peg, stick with a point”), Low German pegel (“post, stake”), Swedish pigg (“tooth, spike”), Danish pig (“spike”), Norwegian Bokmål pigg (“spike”), Irish bac (“stick, crook”), Latin baculum (“staff”), Latvian bakstît (“to poke”), Ancient Greek βάκτρον (báktron, “staff, walking stick”). Related to beak.
2. This is one of the very few English words that begin with a p and come from Proto-Germanic. Proto-Germanic *p, when not in a consonant cluster beginning with *s, developed by Grimm's law from the Proto-Indo-European consonant *b, which was very rare.
3. (To indicate or ascribe an attribute to): Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list. See: Irish 'bac'.

Sample Sentences