blyg

From Old Norse *bljúgr.

blyg (neuter singular blygt, definite singular and plural blyge, comparative blygere, indefinite superlative blygest, definite superlative blygeste)

1. shy, timid

• “blyg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse *bljúgr.

blyg (neuter blygt, definite singular and plural blyge, comparative blygare, indefinite superlative blygast, definite superlative blygaste)

1. shy, timid

   Synonyms: sjenert, tilbakehalden

• “blyg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Swedish bliūgher, blȳgher,^[1] from Old Norse *bljúgr. Cognate with Danish bly, Norwegian blyg, Icelandic bljúgur, Old High German blūgo (from Proto-Germanic *bleuga-, *blūga-, “shyly”), Middle Low German blūc, bliuc and dialectal German blug, plug, blaug.^[2] Probably ultimately related to blöt (“wet”), from Proto-Germanic *blautaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblyːɡ/

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• Rhymes: -yːɡ

blyg

1. shy, timid

Inflection of blyg
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	blyg	blygare	blygast
Neuter singular	blygt	blygare	blygast
Plural	blyga	blygare	blygast
Masculine plural3	blyge	blygare	blygast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	blyge	blygare	blygaste
All	blyga	blygare	blygaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

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• blyg in Svensk ordbok (SO)