Where does “ligjen” come from?

ligjen (Plautdietsch) comes from Middle Low German liggen, from Old Saxon liggian, from Proto-West Germanic liggjan, from Proto-Germanic ligjaną, from Proto-Indo-European legʰ- — to lie.

ligjen (Plautdietsch): to lie extend horizontally

Definitions

  1. to lie extend horizontally

Ancestry of “ligjen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanliggen—
2Old Saxonliggianto lie; to be situated
3Proto-West Germanicliggjanto lie, to rest
4Proto-Germanicligjanąto lie, to rest
5Proto-Indo-Europeanlegʰ-to lie

Words derived from “ligjen”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European legʰ- →
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