vigg

• IPA^(key): /ʋɪɡː/

vigg m (definite singular viggen, indefinite plural viggar, definite plural viggane)

1. edge of an axeblade

   Synonym: økseegg

2. gap in between sawteeth
3. (obsolete) a measure of length roughly equivalent to three inches
   • 1953, Reidar Holtvedt, Historier fra Krokskauen, Oslo: Aschehoug, page 32:

     [Kølaveden] skulle væra fire ælner, heller fire ælner og en vigg, og en øksevigg er et tre tom heller så.

     [The coal wood] was s'posed to be four cubits, or four cubits and one vigg, an axe's vigg being three inches or so.

vigg

1. imperative of vigge

• “vigg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “vigg”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

From Proto-Germanic *wigją.

vigg n

1. (poetic, heiti) horse, steed

• Icelandic: vigg n, viggur m

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vigg”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Inherited from Old Swedish vigge (“wedge”), from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz. Cognate of English wedge. Name of the bird due to the long tuft of hair at the back of the neck of males.

vigg c

1. a tufted duck, Aythya fuligula
2. a thunderbolt

• tvärvigg
• åskvigg

Clipping of vigilans. See vigga.

vigg c

1. (archaic) loan

• vigg in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• vigg in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)