-eg

Akin to Welsh -eg.

-eg

1. Used to form languages or dialects; -ish, -ic

   ‎Gall (“Frenchman”) + ‎-eg → ‎galleg (“French language”)

   ‎Leon (“Léon”) + ‎-eg → ‎leoneg (“Léon dialect”)

• Ian Press (1986) A grammar of modern Breton, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 217

• IPA^(key): /eɡ/

-eg

1. (enclitic, after a consonant) Alternative form of ge

   J-eg vān edmān. ― They go there tomorrow. (imperative, singular)

   J-eg dān da fêr. ― They give her trouble.

-e- +‎ -g

• IPA^(key): [ɛɡ]

-eg

1. (frequentative suffix) Added to a stem - often an onomatopoeia - to form a verb expressing a (quickly) repeating or continuous action.

   ketyeg (“to tick (like a clock)”)

2. (nominal suffix) Added to a verb or a stem to form a noun or an adjective.

   töm (“to stuff”) → tömeg (“mass”)

   sző (“to weave”) → szöveg (“text”)

   lő (“to shoot, to fire”) → löveg (“cannon, gun”)

   hideg (“cold”)

• (frequentative suffix) Harmonic variants:

  -g is added to words ending in a vowel

  -og is added to some back-vowel words

  -ag is added to other back-vowel words

  -eg is added to unrounded front-vowel words

  -ög is added to rounded front-vowel words

• (nominal suffix) Harmonic variants:

  -g is added to words ending in a vowel

  -ag is added to back vowel words

  -eg is added to front vowel words

• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

From Old High German -ag, -ig, from Proto-Germanic *-agaz, *-īgaz, *-ugaz, each a variant of a common suffix *-gaz.

• IPA^(key): /eχ/, [əɕ]

-eg

1. -y, forming adjectives from nouns or verb stems

-eg

1. Alternative form of -y (“-y”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ɛɡ/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /aɡ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ɛɡ/

-eg

1. a language, -ic, -ish

   ‎Llydaw (“Brittany”) + ‎-eg → ‎Llydaweg (“Breton language”)

   ‎Gwyddel (“Irishman”) + ‎-eg → ‎Gwyddeleg (“Irish language”)

   ‎Indonesia (“Indonesia”) + ‎-eg → ‎Indoneseg (“Indonesian language”)

2. a science, a study,-y, -ics

   ‎peiriant (“machine, engine”) + ‎-eg → ‎peirianneg (“engineering”)

   ‎rheswm (“reason”) + ‎-eg → ‎rhesymeg (“logic”)

   ‎electron (“electron”) + ‎-eg → ‎electroneg (“electronics”)

The suffix -eg is feminine but when it refers to a language, the resulting derived does not cause the soft mutation of qualifying adjectives as other feminine nouns do, especially when the adjective defines a specific or specialised kind of language.[1]

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “-eg”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies