bagge

See also: bägge

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bage, baggue, bagke, bayge

Etymology

Usually taken to be borrowed from Old Norse baggi; perhaps reinforced by Old French bague, both of unknown etymology. However, some hypothesise derivation from an Old English *bagga (“badger, bag”), which alongside forms such as Middle Dutch bagghe (“piglet”) would be cognate to baggi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɡ(ə)/

Noun

bagge

1. A fabric container; a bag, sack, pouch, purse, or wallet.
2. A bagpipe; a musical instrument consisting of a bag and a pipe.

Related terms

• bagage
• bagpipe

Descendants

• English: bag
• Middle Scots: bag, bage, bagge
  • Scots: bag
• → Medieval Latin: baga

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Norse baggi.

Noun

bagge m (definite singular baggen, indefinite plural baggar, definite plural baggane)

1. (Telemark) bundle, pack

Etymology 2

May be a semantic derivation of the same word meaning "bundle". See also bagg, which seems to be the same word. Compare Swedish bagge (“ram, beetle, Norwegian”).

Noun

bagge m (definite singular baggen, indefinite plural baggar, definite plural baggane)

1. a clumpy creature
   1. Shortening of torbagge (“earth-boring dung beetle”)
   2. (Trøndelag) a fat child
2. (Farsund) lad, a fellow
3. ram (sheep)
4. (Trøndelag) calf (esp. older than 6 months), see bagg (“1 year old calf”)
5. (Selbu) a rude man, esp. who is often drunk and dirty
6. Shortening of nordbagge (“fjord horse”)

References

• “bagge”, in Norsk Ordbok: Ordbok over det Norske Folkemålet og det Nynorske Skriftmålet (in Norwegian Nynorsk), Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, 1950–2016, →ISBN.
• Tor Erik Jenstad; Arnold Dalen (2002), Trønderordboka (in Norwegian), page 53

Swedish

Etymology 1

Cognate with Old Norse and Icelandic baggi, Old Norse bǫggr, Middle English bagge. The hypothesis for the shift in sense from "bag" to "ram" is by reference to the testicles of an unneutered ram. Doublet of bagage and packe.

Noun

bagge c

1. ram (male sheep)
2. (in compounds) beetle

   skalbagge

   beetle

Declension

Declension of bagge

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	bagge	bagges
	definite	baggen	baggens
plural	indefinite	baggar	baggars
	definite	baggarna	baggarnas

Etymology 2

First attested in 1525, see more at norrbagge.

Noun

bagge c

1. Shortening of norrbagge

Declension

Declension of bagge

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	bagge	bagges
	definite	baggen	baggens
plural	indefinite	baggar	baggars
	definite	baggarna	baggarnas

Derived terms

• baggetorsk (“Norwegian cod”)
• baggmura (“Norwegian cinquefoil”)

Further reading

• “bagge”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• bagge in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)