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leggen

(transitive) to lay (to place in a lying position)
(transitive) to lay (eggs) (to produce and deposit eggs)
(alt-of, alternative, colloquial, proscribed) alternative form of liggen

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/lɛi/

Overgenomen van Middelnederlands

Verwant aan Oudgrieks

Verwant aan Albanees

Overgenomen van Middelnederlands

In summary

From Middle Dutch leye, probably an old Germanic loan from Gaulish *lēi, from Proto-Celtic *līwanks (compare *līwos (“stone”)), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁w- (“stone”), see also Ancient Greek λᾶας (lâas, “stone”), Albanian lerë (“boulder”).