lagg
nounEtymology
Most likely from Swedish lagg (“moist, marshy area around a bog”), though compare the dialectal (Sussex, Somerset) English term(s) lag ("long, narrow, marshy meadow, usually by the side of a stream") and leg ("long, narrow meadow, gen. one which runs out of a larger piece of land"), apparently from leg (“limb”) (as of a body, or body of water). (Compare also Middle English lech(e) (“sluggish stream flowing through bog; bog”), usually attested with ch (whence English letch), but infrequently found as leg, lage in names.)
- derived from lagg
Definitions
Waterlogged, marshy area around the perimeter of a (raised) bog, where water collects.
- Whenever one wants to get to a typical raised bog one usually has to wade through the more or less waterlogged lagg. On the bog itself in dry weather one could walk about in light shoes without getting one's feet wet.
- Surface-water inflow is now largely confined to the lagg, or moat, often surrounding a bog's outer margins.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA