nauger

Middle English

Alternative forms

augeer, augere, augire, augour, augur, awgar, awger, navegar, navegore, naugar, nawger

Etymology

From Old English nafugār, from Proto-West Germanic *nabugaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *nabōgaizaz; equivalent to nave (“hub of a wheel”) +‎ gor (“spear”).

Cognate with Old Saxon navugēr, Old High German nabagēr, Old Norse nafarr. Forms without initial n- are due to reanalysis of a nauger as an auger.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈ(n)au̯ɡər/

Noun

nauger (plural naugers)

auger (carpenter's tool)^[2]

Descendants

English: auger

References

^ Jordan, Richard (1974) Eugene Crook, transl., Handbook of the Middle English Grammar: Phonology (Janua Linguarum; 214)‎^[1], The Hague: Mouton & Co. N.V., →DOI, § 171, page 161.
^ “nauger, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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