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Bagage
bagage
bagage
See also: Bagage
Danish
Etymology
From French bagage (“baggage, luggage”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baɡaːsjə/, [b̥aˈɡ̊æːɕə]
Noun
bagage c (singular definite bagagen, not used in plural form)
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ba‧ga‧ge
Noun
bagage f (uncountable)
Derived terms
- bagagedrager m
- bagagist m
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.ɡaʒ/
Etymology
Either from Late Latin *baga (“a vessel type”), or from bague (“pack, bundle”), ultimately from the Scandinavian source (Old Norse baggi) that yielded English bag.
Noun
bagage m (plural bagages)
Derived terms
Middle English
Noun
bagage (plural bagages)
Related terms
- bagge (“bag”)
Descendants
- English: baggage
See also
Middle French
Alternative forms
- bagaige
- baguage
- baguaige
Etymology
Noun
bagage m (plural bagages)
- baggage (luggage; that which one transports with one)
- 1552, Rabelais, Le Tiers Livre des Faits et Dicts Héroïques du bon Pantagruel
- De butiner et robber le baguaige
- To plunder and rob the baggages
- De butiner et robber le baguaige
- 1552, Rabelais, Le Tiers Livre des Faits et Dicts Héroïques du bon Pantagruel
Usage notes
- Often used uncountably where English would use the plural baggages. See citation above.
References
- bagage on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French)
Old French
Noun
bagage m (oblique plural bagages, nominative singular bagages, nominative plural bagage)
- baggage (luggage; that which one transports with one)
Related terms
Descendants
- Dutch: bagage (borrowed)
- Middle English: bagage (borrowed)
- English: baggage
- French: bagage
- German: Bagage (borrowed)
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bagage, supplement)
Swedish
Noun
- baggage, luggage