lugu

From Proto-Finnic *luku. Related to Finnish luku.

lugu (genitive loo, partitive lugu)

1. tale, story

• “lugu”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “lugu”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• lugu in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

From Proto-Finnic *luku. Compare Finnish luku.

lugu

1. number

lugu

1. inflection of luga:
   1. accusative/instrumental singular
   2. genitive plural

From Proto-Finnic *luku. Cognates include Finnish luku and Ingrian luku.

• IPA^(key): /ˈluɡu/
• Hyphenation: lu‧gu

lugu (genitive luvun, partitive luguu)

1. number
2. chapter
3. count

• (chapter): oza
• (count): lasku

• Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 68

From Proto-Finnic *luku. Cognates include Finnish luku.

lugu

1. number

lugu

1. Alternative form of rugu

Metaphony of lègu f.

lugu f (definite singular lugo or lugu or lugua)

1. (dialectal) alternative form of lege f (“lying place”) (see main entry for more definitions)
   • 1994, Hermann Aune, “Vakkerbrura”, in Viser og dikt i samling, page 81:

     Og nei fekk kallen kvar gong av førkja og berre fantord og inga lugu, ja berre fantord.

     And the bloke was refused every time by the woman, only scorn and no sex, yes only scorn.

   • 1908, Kristofer Uppdal, “Naar nattkvila kom”, in Sol-laug, Kristiania: Norli, page 16:

     Dei laag ikkje saman, // nei langt der i fraa. // Dei lugu si hadde i // kvar si kraa.

     They didn't lie together. // Far from it. // They had their lying place[s] in // each their own corner.

2. (dialectal, architecture) a barn for storage, or a separate storage room, located within a barn

   Synonym: løe

   • 1985, Stian Henneseid, Gards- og ættesoga (Bø-soga; II), volume III, page 144:

     Den gamle lugo […] hadde Torgrim fått av syster si[.]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Metaphony of lògu f.

lugu f (definite singular lugua)

1. (dialectal, weaving) alternative form of loge f (“warp thread”)
   • 1968, Halvor Floden, Ein fjellgard (Norsk folkeminnelags skrifter; 102), Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, page 156:

     Mor brukte «kam», ikkje sveipeskei. Kammen var av tre, med grove tindar. Ein kunne opne han og leggje enden av vevrompa ned mellom tindane, lugu for lugu.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Ivar Aasen (1850) “Lugu”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎ (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

From earlier laigiu, from Proto-Celtic *lagyūs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- (“lightweight”). Cognate with Welsh llai.

• IPA^(key): [ˈl͈uɣu]

lugu

1. comparative degree of bec

• Irish: lú
• Scottish Gaelic: lugha

lugu (Cyrillic spelling лугу)

1. dative/vocative/locative singular of lug

From Proto-Finnic *luku.

lugu

1. number, quantity

• üks'lugu
• äilugu

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “цифра, число”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika