lage

Probably from Irish lag (“weak”), from Old Irish lac, from Proto-Celtic *laggos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g-.

lage (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Water; any weak alcoholic beverage.
   • 1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, act 2:

     I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you.

lage (third-person singular simple present lages, present participle laging, simple past and past participle laged)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To drink.
   • 1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors:

     I saye by the Salomon I will lage it of with a gage of Benebouse; then cut to my nose watch.

• [Francis Grose] (1788) “Lage”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC.
• Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “lage”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volumes II (L–Z), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 2.
• John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1896) “lage”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume IV, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 144.

• Gael, Gale, Lega, egal, gale, geal, leag

lage

1. inflection of laag:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

lage

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of liggen

Dialectal form of laai.

lage f (plural lagen)

1. (obsolete) A (flickering) flame.

lage

1. partitive singular of lagi

lage

1. plain, flat, open, treeless

From French larguer (“to unfurl, to let go”).

• IPA^(key): /laɡe/

lage

1. release, let go

From Old Dutch *lāgi, from Proto-Germanic *lēgijaz, related to *lēgaz (“low”).

lâge

1. low, close to the ground
2. low in rank/stature, unimportant

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• lege

• Dutch: laag
• Limburgish: leeg, lieëg

From Old Dutch *lāga, from Proto-Germanic *lēgō.

lâge f

1. position, lie
2. lodge, place to sleep
3. layer
4. trap, snare
5. ambush
6. treachery
7. condition, situation

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: laag
• Limburgish: laog

• “laghe (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “laghe (IV)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “lage (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “lage (V)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page V

lage

1. Alternative form of lawe

From the noun lag.

lage (imperative lag, present tense lager, passive lages, simple past laga or laget or lagde, past participle laga or laget or lagd, present participle lagende)

1. to make (something)

• heimelaga
• hjemmelagd, hjemmelaget
• matlaging
• spesiallaget

lage m (definite singular lagen, indefinite plural lager, definite plural lagene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by lagje

• “lage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Neuter singular of lagen.

lage (non-comparable)

1. Determined by fate
2. neuter singular of lagen

Derived from lagen.

lage m or n (definite singular lagen or laget, indefinite plural lagar or lage, definite plural lagane or laga)

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From lag.

lage (present tense lagar, past tense laga, past participle laga, passive infinitive lagast, present participle lagande, imperative lage/lag)

1. Alternative form of laga

• “lage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• alge, egal, egla, gale, lega

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ.ɡe/, [ˈlɑ.ɣe]

lage f

1. inflection of lagu (“law”):
   1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural