cæg

See also: caeg

Old English

Alternative forms

cǣġe

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kaiju.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kæːj/

Noun

cǣġ f

key
- Saturnus sumra hæfde bōca cǣġa ― Saturn had the keys of some books. (Dialogues of Salomon and Saturn)

Declension

Declension of cæg (strong ō-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cǣġ	cǣġa, cǣġe
accusative	cǣġe	cǣġa, cǣġe
genitive	cǣġe	cǣġa
dative	cǣġe	cǣġum

Descendants

Middle English: keye, kaye, keiȝe
- English: key
- Scots: key, kay

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “CǼG”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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