lage

Probably from Irish lag (“weak”), from Old Irish lac, from Proto-Celtic *laggos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g-.

lage (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) Water; any weak alcoholic beverage.
   • 1641–42, Brome, Richard, A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, Act 2:

     I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you.

lage (third-person singular simple present lages, present participle laging, simple past and past participle laged)

1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To drink.
   • 1566, Harman, Thomas, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors:

     I saye by the Salomon I will lage it of with a gage of Benebouse; then cut to my nose watch.

• [Francis Grose] (1788), “Lage”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], OCLC 3138643.
• “lage” in Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, 1889–1890, page 2.
• Farmer, John Stephen (1896) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 4, pages 144

• Gael, Gale, Lega, egal, gale, geal, leag

lage

1. Inflected form of laag

lage

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of liggen

Dialectal form of laai.

lage f (plural lagen)

1. (obsolete) A (flickering) flame.

lage

1. release, let go

From Old Dutch *lāgi, from Proto-Germanic *lēgijaz.

lâge

1. low, close to the ground
2. low in rank/stature, unimportant

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• lege

• Dutch: laag
• Limburgish: leeg, lieëg

From Old Dutch *lāga, from Proto-Germanic *lēgō.

lâge f

1. position, lie
2. lodge, place to sleep
3. layer
4. trap, snare
5. ambush
6. treachery
7. condition, situation

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: laag
• Limburgish: laog

• “laghe (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “laghe (IV)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “lage (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
• “lage (V)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

lage

1. Alternative form of lawe

From the noun lag

lage (imperative lag, present tense lager, passive lages, simple past laga or laget or lagde, past participle laga or laget or lagd, present participle lagende)

1. to make (something)

• heimelaga
• hjemmelagd, hjemmelaget
• matlaging
• spesiallaget

• “lage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

lage (present tense lagar, past tense laga, past participle laga, passive infinitive lagast, present participle lagande, imperative lag/lage)

1. Alternative form of laga

• lagu

lage f

1. law, ordinance, rule, regulation; right, legal privilege