plakeg

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Plak, older form of Plack (“layer, piece, patch”) +‎ -eg, thus originally “patchy, scarcely haired”. Likely influenced by the unrelated word at hand in Ripuarian bläck (“bare”), which see. Some Moselle Franconian dialects show the hybrid form blakig.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈplaːkəɕ]

Adjective

plakeg (masculine plakegen, neuter plakegt, comparative méi plakeg, superlative am plakegsten)

  1. naked
    Synonym: (rare, dated) nakeg

Declension

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