wig

See also WIG, wig-, and wīġ-

English

Colorful wigs.

Etymology

Shortening of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque.

Pronunciation

• enPR: wĭg, IPA: /wɪɡ/, SAMPA: /wIg/

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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.

Synonyms

• hairpiece
• toupee, toupe
• peruke

Derived terms

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

Translations

head of artificial hair

Arabic: شعر مستعار (ar) (sha3r musta3aar) m., باروكة (ar) (baruuka) f. Armenian: կեղծամ (hy) (keġçam) Bulgarian: перука (bg) (peruka) 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) f. Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hindi: please add this translation if you can 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. 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. Serbian: vlasulja (sr) f., perika (sr) f. Spanish: peluca (es) f. Swedish: peruk (sv) c. Thai: ผมปลอม (pŏm bplom), วิก (wík) Turkish: peruka (tr), peruk (tr) Ukrainian: перука (uk) (perúka) f. 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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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪx

Noun

wig m. and f. (plural wiggen, diminutive wiggetje)

1. wedge

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Gothic

Romanization

wig

1. Romanization of 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