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Etymology

Inherited from Danish deig, older spelling of dej, from Old Norse deig, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form”). Compare Icelandic deig, Faroese deiggj, Swedish deg, English dough, Dutch deeg, German Teig. Further notes Mid-19th-century Danish retained an otherwise archaic spelling with ⟨ig⟩ or ⟨ug⟩ in a small number of words, namely boug, deig, feig,…

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