tyger
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English tigre, from Old English tīgras (pl) and influenced by Old French tigre, both from Latin tigris, from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris), possibly of Iranian origin.
Noun edit
tyger (plural tygers)
- (obsolete) A tiger.
- [1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China[1], London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 240:
- Near to Cinyuen, in the Province of Junnan, is the Mountain Nilo, where is great abundance of Tygers and Leopards.]
- 1794, William Blake, “The Tyger”, in Songs Of Experience:
- Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
- (heraldry) Alternative form of tiger
Swedish edit
Noun edit
tyger
- indefinite plural of tyg