hispig

Swedish

Etymology

From hispa (“mental asylum”) +‎ -ig (“-y”), from Tavringer Romani hispa (“small house, cottage”), probably a borrowing from Slovene jìspa (“small house, cottage”) or some other Slavic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²hɪspɪ(ɡ)/
• Rhymes: -²ɪspɪɡ, -²ɪspɪ

Adjective

hispig (comparative hispigare, superlative hispigast)

1. (colloquial, of a person) experiencing a fit of anxiety or prone to experiencing fits of anxiety, "hysterical"
2. (colloquial, of a person) scatterbrained, crazy

   Synonym: vimsig

Declension

Inflection of hispig
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	hispig	hispigare	hispigast
Neuter singular	hispigt	hispigare	hispigast
Plural	hispiga	hispigare	hispigast
Masculine plural3	hispige	hispigare	hispigast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	hispige	hispigare	hispigaste
All	hispiga	hispigare	hispigaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

References

• hispig in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Gerd Carling (2005) “hispig”, in Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, →ISBN, page 82