keg

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /kɛɡ/
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• /kæɡ/ dated, Southeastern Midwest of the U.S.
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• /keɪɡ/ dated, New England, Virginia, South Carolina
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• rhymes with -ɛɡ
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• CMU ARPABET: K EH1 G Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English kag, from Old Norse kaggi (“keg”), likely a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kagô (“bush, branch, stalk, stump”). Cognate with Icelandic kaggi (“keg; cask”), Norwegian kagg (“keg”), Swedish kagge (“keg”), Low German kag (“vessel; craft”), Dutch kaag (“vessel; craft”). Compare also English cag and chag. The modern form keg with /ɛ/ is due to a dialectal raising of /a///æ/ to /ɛ/ before velars (cf. fleg); the expected form is preserved in dialectal /kæɡ/, while /keɪɡ/ reflects further raising that occurred in some dialects.

41 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: տակառիկ (takaṙik) — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Bulgarian: бъчонка (bǎčonka) — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Bulgarian: кег (keg) — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Catalan: barril — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Catalan: bóta (barril en anglès) — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Chinese Mandarin: 啤酒桶 (píjiǔ tǒng) — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Danish: fad — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Danish: fustage — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Danish: tønde — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Dutch: vat — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Dutch: fust — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Finnish: tynnyri — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Finnish: lekkeri — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• French: tonnelet — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• French: baril — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Georgian: კასრი (ḳasri) — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• German: Fass — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Hungarian: hordó — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Hungarian: hordócska — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Icelandic: legill — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Ido: bareleto — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Italian: fusto — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Italian: barile — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Kazakh: бөшке (böşke) — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Macedonian: буре (bure) — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Norwegian Bokmål: tønne — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tønne — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tynne — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Persian: چلیک (čelik) — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Persian: پیت (pit) — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Polish: antałek — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Polish: antał — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Portuguese: barrica — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Portuguese: barrilete — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Russian: бочо́нок (bočónok) — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Slovene: sod — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Spanish: barril — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Spanish: cuñete — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Spanish: barrilete — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Swedish: kagge — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel
• Turkish: fıçı — round container of lesser capacity than a barrel