cog

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• Received-Pronunciation: kŏg
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• Received-Pronunciation: /kɒɡ/
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• General-American: kôg
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• General-American: /kɔɡ/
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• cot-caught-merger: kŏg
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• cot-caught-merger: /kɑɡ/
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gēw- Proto-Indo-European *gugāder. Proto-Germanic *kuggōder. Old Norse *koggrbor. Middle English cogge English cog Inherited from Middle English cogge, from Old Norse *kogge, *koggr (see Old Swedish kogge, kogger), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”). Compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”). Cognates includes: Swedish kugg, kugge (“cog tooth”), Norwegian kugg (“cog”). The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel. Compare Old Swedish koggavidher (“cog wood”), “wood reserved for a millwheel”. See also dialectal English cag (“stump”), keg; Old Norse kaggi (“keg”) + -gi (diminutive suffix), from the Germanic base *kagô (“bush, branch, stalk, stump”); also found in Bavarian Kag (“the stalk or stem of a cabbage”); dialectal Swedish kage (“treestump; piece of wood; post”), kagg or kagge (“scythe handle”); Norwegian Nynorsk kage or kagge (“low lying bush, small tree”), dialectal kagg (“scythe handle”); Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze, gorse”), whence English chag (“branch”), also Old English cyċġel, English cudgel (“knotty club”). The ultimate origin could be related to English cog (“cargo boat”) (Dutch kogge), probably named for its “round swollen” appearance.

From Middle English cogge, from Middle Dutch kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō, from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”) (compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”)), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”). See etymology 1 above.

Uncertain. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Azerbaijani: diş — tooth on a gear
• Belarusian: зубе́ц (zubjéc) — tooth on a gear
• Bulgarian: зъбе́ц (zǎbéc) — tooth on a gear
• Catalan: dent — tooth on a gear
• Chinese Mandarin: 齒 /齿 (chǐ) — tooth on a gear
• Czech: zub — tooth on a gear
• Dutch: tand — tooth on a gear
• Dutch: tandwieltand — tooth on a gear
• Esperanto: dento — tooth on a gear
• Finnish: hammas — tooth on a gear
• French: dent — tooth on a gear
• Galician: dente — tooth on a gear
• Galician: macho — tooth on a gear
• German: Zahn — tooth on a gear
• Hungarian: fog — tooth on a gear
• Indonesian: gerigi — tooth on a gear
• Japanese: 歯 (ha) — tooth on a gear
• Korean: 이 (i) — tooth on a gear
• Korean: 톱니 (tomni) — tooth on a gear
• Macedonian: запче (zapče) — tooth on a gear
• Māori: nihowhiti — tooth on a gear
• Norwegian: tannhjul — tooth on a gear
• Plautdietsch: Zak — tooth on a gear
• Polish: ząb — tooth on a gear
• Portuguese: dente — tooth on a gear
• Russian: зубе́ц (zubéc) — tooth on a gear
• Scottish Gaelic: fiacaill — tooth on a gear
• Serbo-Croatian: зу́бац — tooth on a gear
• Serbo-Croatian: zúbac — tooth on a gear
• Slovak: zub — tooth on a gear
• Spanish: leva — tooth on a gear
• Spanish: álabe — tooth on a gear
• Spanish: levador — tooth on a gear
• Swedish: kugge — tooth on a gear
• Swedish: tand — tooth on a gear
• Thai: ฟันเฟือง (fan-fʉʉang) — tooth on a gear
• Turkish: diş — tooth on a gear
• Ukrainian: зубе́ць (zubécʹ) — tooth on a gear
• Welsh: dant — tooth on a gear
• Catalan: peó — unimportant individual
• Czech: nula — unimportant individual
• Dutch: radertje — unimportant individual
• Finnish: ratas — unimportant individual
• French: pion — unimportant individual
• Galician: badanas — unimportant individual
• Galician: niquifate — unimportant individual
• Galician: belanxín — unimportant individual
• German: Rädchen — unimportant individual
• Indonesian: nyamuk — unimportant individual
• Italian: rotellina — unimportant individual
• Russian: ви́нтик (víntik) — unimportant individual
• Russian: ме́лкая со́шка (mélkaja sóška) — unimportant individual
• Serbo-Croatian: зупчаничић — unimportant individual
• Serbo-Croatian: шрафић — unimportant individual
• Serbo-Croatian: zupčaničić — unimportant individual
• Serbo-Croatian: šrafić — unimportant individual
• Swedish: kugge — unimportant individual
• Bulgarian: ца́пфа (cápfa) — carpentry: a projection or tenon
• German: Zapfen — carpentry: a projection or tenon
• Serbo-Croatian: féder — carpentry: a projection or tenon
• Serbo-Croatian: фе́дер — carpentry: a projection or tenon
• Catalan: coca — type of ship
• Czech: koga — type of ship
• Dutch: kogge — type of ship
• Finnish: koggi — type of ship
• Galician: coca — type of ship
• German: Kogge — type of ship
• Russian: когг (kogg) — type of ship
• Serbo-Croatian: кога (koga) — type of ship
• Spanish: coca — type of ship
• Swedish: kogg — type of ship
• Bulgarian: измама (izmama) — trick or deception
• Dutch: vals spel — trick or deception
• Dutch: valsspelen — cheat at dice
• Dutch: bedriegen — cheat at dice