Lemizh / English dictionary
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làg.
agentive ins: to calculate something-dat to give some result-acc (see unit 7, Mathematical functions)
Etymology
< NLem, LMLem, MLem alg‑a
< OLem alg‑ ‘count, calculate’
< PLem *alg‑, root present of
< PIE *leg̑‑ ‘gather’
Cognates
Lat legō ‘gather, read’, Alb mbledh ‘gather’; neither related to Eng algebra nor to Gk ἄλγος ‘pain’