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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''bagage'', from Middle French, from ''bagues'' belongings, baggage
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century]
''Luggage'' - 1596, from lug (v.) "to drag;" so, lit. "what has to be lugged about" (or, in Johnson's definition, "any thing of more bulk than [[value]]"). In 20c., the usual [[word]] for "baggage belonging to passengers."
According to the [[Oxford English Dictionary]], the word luggage enters printed [[English]] in 1596. The word derived from the verb "lug," as in "that which needs to be lugged about." The [[idea]] of pulling things [[inherent]] in the verb lug combines with the suffix -age to create the word we know today.
"Baggage" is a similar word with the same suffix. This common word ending (-age) means that the item is functionally related to the [[root]] [[word]]; hence "baggage" is functionally related to the noun "bag," and luggage related to the act of "lugging."
==Definitions==
*1: suitcases, trunks, and personal belongings of travelers : luggage
*2: transportable equipment especially of a [[military]] force
*3: intangible [[things]] (as [[feelings]], circumstances, or [[beliefs]]) that get in the way <[[emotional]] baggage>
==Description==
'''Baggage''' is any number of bags, cases and containers which hold a traveler's articles during [[transit]].
Luggage is more or less the same concept as "baggage", but is [[normally]] used in relation to the personal baggage of a specific person or persons (e.g. I have lost my luggage, he has [[prepared]] his luggage, but not normally I have lost my baggage, he has prepared his baggage). The [[modern]] traveler can be [[expected]] to have packages containing clothing, toiletries, small possessions, trip necessities, and on the return-trip, [[souvenir]]s. For some, luggage and the [[style]] thereof is [[representative]] of the owner's [[wealth]].
Baggage (not luggage), or baggage train, can also refer to the train of people and [[goods]], both [[military]] and of a [[personal]] nature, which commonly followed pre-modern armies on [[campaign]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baggage]
[[Category: General Reference]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''bagage'', from Middle French, from ''bagues'' belongings, baggage
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century]
''Luggage'' - 1596, from lug (v.) "to drag;" so, lit. "what has to be lugged about" (or, in Johnson's definition, "any thing of more bulk than [[value]]"). In 20c., the usual [[word]] for "baggage belonging to passengers."
According to the [[Oxford English Dictionary]], the word luggage enters printed [[English]] in 1596. The word derived from the verb "lug," as in "that which needs to be lugged about." The [[idea]] of pulling things [[inherent]] in the verb lug combines with the suffix -age to create the word we know today.
"Baggage" is a similar word with the same suffix. This common word ending (-age) means that the item is functionally related to the [[root]] [[word]]; hence "baggage" is functionally related to the noun "bag," and luggage related to the act of "lugging."
==Definitions==
*1: suitcases, trunks, and personal belongings of travelers : luggage
*2: transportable equipment especially of a [[military]] force
*3: intangible [[things]] (as [[feelings]], circumstances, or [[beliefs]]) that get in the way <[[emotional]] baggage>
==Description==
'''Baggage''' is any number of bags, cases and containers which hold a traveler's articles during [[transit]].
Luggage is more or less the same concept as "baggage", but is [[normally]] used in relation to the personal baggage of a specific person or persons (e.g. I have lost my luggage, he has [[prepared]] his luggage, but not normally I have lost my baggage, he has prepared his baggage). The [[modern]] traveler can be [[expected]] to have packages containing clothing, toiletries, small possessions, trip necessities, and on the return-trip, [[souvenir]]s. For some, luggage and the [[style]] thereof is [[representative]] of the owner's [[wealth]].
Baggage (not luggage), or baggage train, can also refer to the train of people and [[goods]], both [[military]] and of a [[personal]] nature, which commonly followed pre-modern armies on [[campaign]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baggage]
[[Category: General Reference]]
