UrsprungOld Swedish läghil, from Latin lagena, from Ancient Greek λάγῡνος (lágūnos). Compare Medieval Latin lagula, lagella.
The first official Swedish Bible translation of 1541 used this word in 1 Samuel 16:20, where KJV has "a bottle of wine". The now famous use from Matthew 9:17 (new wine into old wineskins) stems from a Swedish bible translation of 1853, where older translations had "(läder)flaskor" (bottles or leather bottles).
- common-gendera container for transportation of liquids, e.g. a wooden barrel or a ceramic flagon
- common-gendera wineskin
“nytt vin i gamla läglar” — new wine into old wineskins
Formerlägel(indefinite, nominative, singular) · lägels(genitive, indefinite, singular) · lägeln(definite, nominative, singular) · lägelns(definite, genitive, singular) · läglar(indefinite, nominative, plural) · läglars(genitive, indefinite, plural) · läglarna(definite, nominative, plural) · läglarnas(definite, genitive, plural)