Old English · noun
hecg
Normalised heċġ
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- strong ō-stem
- IPA
- /xejj/[hed͡ʒ]
- Syllables
- xejj (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- fencehedge
Meaning
-
fence
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *haggju. Cognate with Danish hæk, Dutch heg, German Hecke, Icelandic hekk, Swedish häck.
Descendants
hedge
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