ledger

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlɛd͡ʒə/
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• General-American: /ˈlɛd͡ʒɚ/
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• rhymes with -ɛdʒə(ɹ)
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• homophone: leger
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• CMU ARPABET: L EH1 JH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Two possible origins: * English patronymic surname from either the Norman personal name Leodegar or the Old French equivalent Legier, both containing the Proto-Germanic elements *liudiz (“men, people”) and *garwaz (“ready, prepared”). * English metonymic occupational surname for a stonemason, from ledger, itself a derivative of Old English leċġan (“to lay”).

From Middle English liggere, ligger, leger (“large breviary; beam, plank; dweller, inhabitant”), from liggen, leggen, variants of līen (“to lie down; to bow, kneel, prostrate; to die; to be located (somewhere); to remain in place, stay”), from Old English liċġan (“to lie down; to be situated”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *legh- (“to lie down”). The word is cognate with Saterland Frisian Lägger (“floor board, joist, plank”), West Frisian lêger (“beam, plank”), Dutch legger (“daybook; layer”) (from leggen (“to lay”), liggen (“to lie down”)), and is related to English ledge, lie (“to be prostrate”). The verb is derived from the noun.

94 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: muistikirja — book for keeping notes
• Finnish: päiväkirja — book for keeping notes
• German: Notizbuch — book for keeping notes
• Japanese: 原簿 (genbo) — book for keeping notes
• Japanese: 元帳 (motochō) — book for keeping notes
• Japanese: 帳簿 (chōbo) — book for keeping notes
• Japanese: 台簿 (daibo) — book for keeping notes
• Polish: rejestr — book for keeping notes
• Swedish: dagbok — book for keeping notes
• Swedish: liggare — book for keeping notes
• Ottoman Turkish: دفتر (defter) — book for keeping notes
• Ottoman Turkish: جریده (ceride) — book for keeping notes
• Finnish: tilikirja — book or other scheme for keeping accounting records
• Finnish: pääkirja — book or other scheme for keeping accounting records
• Indonesian: buku besar — book or other scheme for keeping accounting records
• Malay: lejar — book or other scheme for keeping accounting records
• Polish: rejestr — book or other scheme for keeping accounting records
• Swahili: leja — book or other scheme for keeping accounting records
• Ottoman Turkish: دفتر (defter) — book or other scheme for keeping accounting records
• Ottoman Turkish: جریده (ceride) — book or other scheme for keeping accounting records
• Vietnamese: sổ cái — book or other scheme for keeping accounting records
• Catalan: llibre de comptabilitat — collection of accounting entries
• Cebuano: libro — collection of accounting entries
• Chinese Mandarin: 總帳 /总帐 (zǒngzhàng) — collection of accounting entries
• Chinese Mandarin: 流水簿子 (liúshuǐ bùzi) — collection of accounting entries
• Czech: hlavní kniha — collection of accounting entries
• Danish: hovedbog — collection of accounting entries
• Danish: kassejournal — collection of accounting entries
• Danish: kassebog — collection of accounting entries
• Dutch: grootboek — collection of accounting entries
• Finnish: tilikirja — collection of accounting entries
• Finnish: pääkirja — collection of accounting entries
• French: grand livre — collection of accounting entries
• German: Hauptbuch — collection of accounting entries
• German: Konto — collection of accounting entries
• German: Kontobuch — collection of accounting entries
• German: Kontoblatt — collection of accounting entries
• German: Wirtschaftsbuch — collection of accounting entries
• German: Bestandsbuch — collection of accounting entries
• Greek: τεφτέρι (teftéri) — collection of accounting entries
• Hindi: बही (bahī) — collection of accounting entries
• Hungarian: főkönyv — collection of accounting entries
• Interlingua: libro major — collection of accounting entries
• Irish: mórleabhar cuntas — collection of accounting entries
• Irish: mórleabhar — collection of accounting entries
• Italian: registro contabile — collection of accounting entries
• Māori: pukapuka kaute — collection of accounting entries
• Norwegian: reskontro — collection of accounting entries
• Polish: rejestr — collection of accounting entries
• Portuguese: canhoto — collection of accounting entries
• Portuguese: registro contábil — collection of accounting entries
• Romanian: registrul mare — collection of accounting entries
• Romanian: registru principal — collection of accounting entries
• Russian: гроссбу́х (grossbúx) — collection of accounting entries
• Serbo-Croatian: glavna knjiga — collection of accounting entries
• Slovak: (hlavná) účtovná kniha — collection of accounting entries
• Slovak: účtovný register — collection of accounting entries
• Spanish: libro de contabilidad — collection of accounting entries
• Spanish: libro mayor — collection of accounting entries
• Spanish: dietario — collection of accounting entries
• Swahili: leja — collection of accounting entries
• Swedish: huvudbok — collection of accounting entries
• Swedish: kassabok — collection of accounting entries
• Tagalog: lagumang-aklat — collection of accounting entries
• Telugu: చిట్టా (ciṭṭā) — collection of accounting entries
• Turkish: ana muhasebe defteri — collection of accounting entries
• Turkish: defterikebir — collection of accounting entries
• Welsh: cyfriflyfr — collection of accounting entries
• Czech: kamenná deska — large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb
• Finnish: paasi — large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb
• German: Bodenplatte — large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb
• German: Steinplatte — large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb
• German: Pflasterplatte — large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb
• German: Fußbodenplatte — large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb
• German: Grabplatte — large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb
• Italian: pietra tombale — large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb
• Finnish: juoksu — construction: board attached to a wall to provide support
• Finnish: niska — construction: board attached to a wall to provide support
• French: longrine — construction: board attached to a wall to provide support
• French: moise — construction: board attached to a wall to provide support
• German: Konsole — construction: board attached to a wall to provide support
• German: Widerlager — construction: board attached to a wall to provide support
• German: Auflager — construction: board attached to a wall to provide support
• German: Fixpunkt — construction: board attached to a wall to provide support
• German: Querbalken — construction: board attached to a wall to provide support
• Italian: traversa — construction: board attached to a wall to provide support
• Swedish: tvärbjälke — construction: board attached to a wall to provide support
• Finnish: kirjata — to record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger
• Finnish: viedä kirjanpitoon — to record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger
• German: registrieren — to record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger
• German: auflisten — to record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger
• German: verbuchen — to record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger
• German: buchen — to record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger
• Finnish: pohjakalastaa — to engage in bottom fishing