krig

Borrowed from Middle Low German krîch.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʰʁ̥iˀ]
• Rhymes: -iːˀ

krig c (singular definite krigen, plural indefinite krige, in compounds: krigs-)

1. war (conflict involving organized use of arms)

• “krig” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “krig” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

From Middle Low German krîch (“battle, quarrel, war; dispute”), from Old Saxon *krīg, from Proto-West Germanic *krīg (“strife, struggle, fight”), possibly from *krīgan (“to strive, struggle”), from Proto-Germanic *krīganą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷrihg(ʰ)-o-, a form of *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”), from *gʷreh₂- (“heavy”) + *-us (“forms adjectives”).

• IPA^(key): /kɾiːɡ/

krig m (definite singular krigen, indefinite plural kriger, definite plural krigene)

1. war

   krigen mellom Russland og Sverige ― the war between Russia and Sweden

• kamp, strid, ufred

• fred

• “krig” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• Falk, Hjalmar, Torp, Alf (1903–06) Etymologisk ordbog over det norske og det danske sprog [Etymological Dictionary of the Norwegian and Danish Languages], page 413

Borrowed from Middle Low German krîch, from Proto-West Germanic *krīg.

krig m (definite singular krigen, indefinite plural krigar, definite plural krigane)

1. war

• kamp, strid, ufred

• fred

• “krig” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

krig

1. banana

• Heljä & Duane Clouse, Kirikiri and the Western Lakes Plains Languages (1993)

• krieg, krēg, chrēg

From Proto-West Germanic *krīg.

krig m

1. stubbornness
2. defiance

• widarkrēgi
• widarkriegelīn

• Middle High German: kriec
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: khriage, khriig

    Mòcheno: kriag

  • Central Franconian: Kriech, Kreech
    • Hunsrik: Kriegh, kriich
    • Luxembourgish: Krich
  • German: Krieg
  • Rhine Franconian: Kriech, Krieg, Kriesch

    Frankfurterisch: [kʀiːʃ]

  • Vilamovian: krig
  • Yiddish: קריג (krig)

Borrowed from Middle Low German krîch.

• IPA^(key): /kriːɡ/
• Rhymes: -iːɡ

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krig n

1. war

• fred

• krig in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• krig in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• krig in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

From Middle High German kriec, from Old High German krig.

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krig m (plural krigia)

1. war

Borrowed from German Krieg (“war”).

• IPA^(key): /kriɡ/

krig (nominative plural krigs)

1. war
   • 1951, editors, "REIDANES LESTÜMIK OBAS.", Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, 1, 1.

     Dub volakrigs tel, dub krigs votik, dub voluts laf epasetiköl tumyela at evedon tumyelalaf mifätik.

     Because of two world wars, because of other wars, because of revolts the past half of this century has become a catastrophic half-century.

• volakrig (“world war”)