-weg

See also: weg, Weg, WEG, weg-, and węg.

Dutch

Etymology

From weg (gone, away). The first word of this type is verreweg, attested in late Middle Dutch verre wech (by far, literally far away). Other words were subsequently formed by analogy with verreweg, but lacked a clear semantic link to weg (gone, away), thus transforming -weg into a true (and still productive) derivational suffix.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋɛx/
  • (file)

Suffix

-weg

  1. -ly, -wise; forms adverbs from adjectives.

Derived terms

Dutch terms suffixed with -weg

Ojibwe

Medial

-weg

  1. cloth, clothing
  2. sheet-like (such as bark, cloth, paper, hide)

Derived terms

  • bezhigwegone piece of clothing; one cloth article
  • daswegso many pieces of clothing; so many blankets; so many cloths

References

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