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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
tig (plural tigs)
- (historical) A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
tig (uncountable)
- (Ireland) The children's game of tag.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 43
- One evening when playing tig she had put her hands over his eyes: long and white and thin and cold and soft.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 43
Anagrams[edit]
Cebuano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From tig-.
Noun[edit]
tig
- (often humorous, derogatory) a gofer; a worker who runs errands
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the suffix -tig used to form multiples of ten.
Pronunciation[edit]
Determiner[edit]
tig
- (informal) tens, dozens, lots
- Ik kan wel tig redenen bedenken waarom dit fout is!
- I can think of dozens of reasons why this is wrong!
- Ik kan wel tig redenen bedenken waarom dit fout is!
Haitian Creole[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tig
Irish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Irish ·ticc, prototonic form of do·icc (“comes”).
Verb[edit]
tig
- Alternative form of tagann, the present indicative analytic of tar
- Tig sé abhaile ar a sé a chloch.
- He comes home at six o’clock.
Usage notes[edit]
The form tig is especially common in tar le (“be able”).
Etymology 2[edit]
Variant form of tuig.
Verb[edit]
tig (present analytic tigeann, future analytic tigfidh, verbal noun tiscint, past participle tigthe)
- Cois Fharraige form of tuig (“to understand”)
Conjugation[edit]
* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form
‡‡ Dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Etymology 3[edit]
Pronunciation spelling based on the fact that word-final -igh and -ig are pronounced the same in Munster.
Noun[edit]
tig m
Mutation[edit]
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tig | thig | dtig |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Livonian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Related to Estonian tige.
Adjective[edit]
tig
Old Irish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tig n
Mutation[edit]
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
tig | thig | tig pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Verb[edit]
tig
- Future tense of thig
Usage notes[edit]
- This is the dependent form, the basic form being thig.
Swedish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -iːɡ
Verb[edit]
tig
- imperative of tiga.
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