plakeg
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Plak, older form of Plack (“layer, piece, patch”) + -eg, thus originally “patchy, scarcely haired”. Likely influenced by the unrelated word at hand in Ripuarian bläck (“bare”), which see. Some Moselle Franconian dialects show the hybrid form blakig.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈplaːkəɕ]
Adjective
plakeg (masculine plakegen, neuter plakegt, comparative méi plakeg, superlative am plakegsten)
- naked
- Synonym: (rare, dated) nakeg
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| predicative | hien ass | si ass | et ass | si si(nn) | |
| nominative / accusative |
attributive and/or after determiner | plakegen | plakegt | ||
| independent without determiner | plakeges | plakeger | |||
| dative | after any declined word | plakegen | plakeger | plakegen | plakegen |
| as first declined word | plakegem | plakegem | |||