See also: SIG

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

A shortened form of signature.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

sig (plural sigs)

  1. (Internet, informal) A signature, especially on emails or newsgroup postings.
    • 1995, Vince Emery, How to grow your business on the Internet:
      Your sig should ideally be four or five lines long, six or seven at the maximum. Since it will be repeated on hundreds of messages, a long signature wastes bandwidth and is therefore rude.
    • 2004, Brad Hill, Building Your Business with Google For Dummies, page 48:
      Posting good content is the best way to get people clicking your sig link.
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English sige. Cognate with Middle Dutch seic, seike, Middle Low German seyche. Related also to sink (to fall).

NounEdit

sig (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dialectal, dated) Urine.

AnagramsEdit

DanishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse sik, from Proto-Germanic *sik.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

sig

  1. (reflexive) third-person pronoun
    Hunden slikkede sig ren.
    The dog licked itself clean.
Usage notesEdit

For all other persons (both singular and plural) the personal accusative pronoun is used.

See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

See sige.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

sig

  1. imperative of sige

FaroeseEdit

VerbEdit

sig

  1. imperative singular of siga

ConjugationEdit

Conjugation of siga (group v-70)
infinitive siga
supine sagt
participle (a8)1 sigandi sagdur
present past
first singular sigi segði
second singular sigur segði
third singular sigur segði
plural siga søgdu
imperative
singular sig!
plural sigið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

IcelandicEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

sig n (genitive singular sigs, nominative plural sig)

  1. subsidence, (a sinking of something to a lower level)
  2. prolapse, a moving out of place, especially a protrusion of an internal organ
DeclensionEdit
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Old Norse sik, from Proto-Germanic *sik.

Alternative formsEdit

PronounEdit

sig

  1. (reflexive) accusative third person reflexive pronoun meaning oneself (and also depending on context himself, herself, itself and themselves)
    Hann drap sig.
    He killed himself.
    Hún drap sig.
    She killed herself.
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

VerbEdit

sig

  1. inflection of siga:
    1. present
    2. imperative

SumerianEdit

RomanizationEdit

sig

  1. Romanization of 𒋝 (sig)

SwedishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

  • sej (strongly colloquial)

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse sik, from Proto-Germanic *sek, from Proto-Indo-European *se.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

sig

  1. reflexive case of han, hon, den, det, de or man; compare himself, herself, itself, themselves, oneself
    Antagligen skulle han vilja lära sig jonglera.
    Presumably he would like to learn how to juggle.
    Hon lärde sig själv.
    She taught herself.
    Skar de sig på knivarna?
    Did they cut themselves on the knives?

DeclensionEdit

See alsoEdit

Western ApacheEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Athabaskan *-x̯ɑ̓t. Cognates include Navajo sid, Mescalero sįh.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

sig

  1. scar

Usage notesEdit

The form sig in the White Mountain variety; sid occurs in White Mountain and Dilzhe’eh (Tonto); shig occurs in Cibecue; shid occurs in Dilzhe’eh and San Carlos varieties;