wig

See also WIG, and wig-

English

Colorful wigs.

Etymology

Shortening of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque.

Pronunciation

• enPR: wĭg, IPA: /wɪɡ/, X-SAMPA: /wIg/

• Audio (US)

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Rhymes: -ɪɡ

• Homophone: Whig (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

wig (plural wigs)

1. A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness; for cultural or religious reasons; for fashion; or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.
2. (dated, among fishermen) An old seal.

Synonyms

• hairpiece
• toupee, toupe
• peruke
• periwig

Derived terms

• bald wig
• bewigged
• fright wig
• wigmaker
• wig out

Translations

head of artificial hair

• Arabic: شعر مستعار (ar) (šaʿr mustaʿār) m, باروكة (ar) (barūka) f
• Armenian: կեղծամ (hy) (keġçam)
• Basque: ileorde (eu)
• Belarusian: парык (be) (parýk) m
• Bulgarian: перука (bg) (perúka) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 假髮 (cmn), 假发 (cmn) (jiǎfà)

• Czech: paruka (cs) f
• Danish: paryk (da) c
• Dutch: pruik (nl) m
• Esperanto: peruko (eo)
• Finnish: peruukki (fi)
• French: perruque (fr) f
• Georgian: პარიკი (ka) (pariki)
• German: Perücke (de) f
• Greek: περούκα (el) (peroúka) f
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
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• Hungarian: paróka (hu)
• Ido: peruko (io)
• Irish: bréagfholt (ga) m
• Italian: parrucca (it) f
• Japanese: かつら (ja) (katsura), 入れ毛 (ja) (いれげ, irege)
• Korean: 가발 (ko) (gabal), 덧머리 (ko) (deotmeori) (North Korea)
• Latin: capillamentum (la)

• Latvian: parūka (lv)
• Lithuanian: perukas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Parréck (lb) f
• Macedonian: перика (mk) (périka) f
• Norwegian: parykk (no)
• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Ossetic: парик (parik)
• Polish: peruka (pl) f
• Portuguese: peruca (pt) f
• Romanian: perucă (ro) f
• Russian: парик (ru) (parík) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: перика (sh) f, власуља (sh) f

  Roman: perika (sh) f, vlasulja (sh) f

• Slovak: parochňa (sk) f
• Slovene: lasulja (sl) f
• Spanish: peluca (es) f
• Swedish: peruk (sv) c
• Thai: ผมปลอม (th) (pŏm bplom), วิก (th) (wík)
• Turkish: peruka (tr), peruk (tr)
• Ukrainian: перука (uk) (perúka) f
• Vietnamese: bộ tóc giả (vi)
• Volapük: herot (vo), (obsolete) helot (vo)

Verb

wig (third-person singular simple present wigs, present participle wigging, simple past and past participle wigged)

1. To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
2. (colloquial) To upbraid, reprimand.
3. (colloquial) To become very excitable or emotional; to lose control of one's emotions.

Related terms

• wig out

See also

• earwig
• merkin
• periwig
• peruke

External links

• Wig on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• wig in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch wig.

Noun

wig (plural wîe)

1. wedge
2. quoin

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪx
• IPA: /ʋɪx/

Noun

wig m, f (plural wiggen, diminutive wiggetje)

1. wedge

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Gothic

Romanization

wig

1. See 𐍅𐌹𐌲

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /wiːj/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *wīgan, from Proto-Indo-European *weik-. Cognate with Old Frisian wig, Old Saxon wig, Old High German wīc, Old Norse víg. The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin vincō, Welsh gwychr, Russian век (vek), Lithuanian veĩkti.

Noun

wīġ n

1. war, battle

   Oft ic wig seo, frecne feohtan: often I see war, brave men fighting. (AS Riddles)

Declension

    Declension of wig (strong a-stem)

	Singular	Plural
nominative	wīġ	wīġ
accusative	wīġ	wīġ
genitive	wīġes	wīġa
dative	wīġe	wīġum

Related terms

• wiga

Etymology 2

Variant of weoh.

Noun

wīġ m

1. idol

Derived terms

• wīġweorþung

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Old Saxon

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *wīgan, from Proto-Indo-European *weik-. Cognate with Old Frisian wig, Old English wig, Old High German wīc, Old Norse víg. The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin vincō, Welsh gwychr, Russian век (vek), Lithuanian veĩkti.

Noun

wīg n

1. war, battle

Declension

Declension of wig (strong a-stem)

	Singular	Plural
nominative	wīg	wīg
accusative	wīg	wīg
genitive	wīges	wīgō
dative	wīge	wīgum

Etymology 2

From Germanic *wegjan, *wigjan ; from *weg- ‘to carry’. Cognate with Old English wicg, Old Norse vigg.

Noun

wig n

1. horse, steed

Declension

Declension of wig (strong ja-stem)

	Singular	Plural
nominative	wig	wig
accusative	wig	wig
genitive	wiggies	wiggiō
dative	wiggie	wiggium