ergi

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛr.d͡ʒi/
• Rhymes: -ɛrdʒi
• Hyphenation: èr‧gi

ergi

1. inflection of ergere:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• egri, gire, regi

• regi (with metathesis)

From Proto-Norse ᛡᚱᛡᚷᛖᚢ (ᴀrᴀgeu), equivalent to argr (“effeminate, shameful, homosexual”) +‎ -i (“abstract noun suffix; -ness”).

ergi f (genitive ergi)

1. the state of being argr; variously translated as lewdness, perversity, effeminacy, degeneracy

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
• “ergi”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Compare to Khakas иргі (irgì).

• (Jiezi, Gaizi, Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): [erki]

ergi

1. early
2. old

• ehte (“tomorrow”)
• er (“morning”)

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “ergi”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow: Nauka, page 326
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “ergi”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 89