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NORWEGIAN BOKMÅL · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

ak.

a sedge; any of several aquatic and marsh plants in the family Cyperaceae, including great fen-sedge and beaksedges

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Meaning & usage

noun/ɑːk/[ɑːk]
  1. a sedge; any of several aquatic and marsh plants in the family Cyperaceae, including great fen-sedge and beaksedges

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Origin uncertain. Probably cognate with Swedish Swedish ag (“sedge, especially great fen-sedge”). The plant name has been connected with an Indo-European root meaning “sharp, pointed”, perhaps in reference to the sharply toothed leaves of great fen-sedge, but this connection is uncertain. If the proposed root connection is correct, compare Latin acus (“needle, point”) and ācer (“sharp”), as well as Norwegian agg (“edge; resentment”) and abbor (“perch”), which have also been connected with the same root.

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