tag

See also: Tag, TAG, tag-, tağ, tág, tåg, and tāğ

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tăg, IPA^(key): /tæɡ/
• (North American also) IPA^(key): /teɪɡ/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æɡ

Noun

tag (plural tags)

1. A small label.
2. A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it".
3. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
4. A type of cardboard.
5. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
   • 2011, Scape Martinez, Graff 2: Next Level Graffiti Techniques (page 124)

     There is a hierarchy of sorts: a throw-up can go over a tag, a piece over a throw-up, and a burner over a piece.

6. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
7. (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").

   Synonyms: dialogue tag, speech tag, tag line

   • (Can we date this quote?),
     Seems here like Russ would be speaking. You could use a tag here.michael on alt.fiction.original
   • (Can we date this quote?)
     If you want to start with talk, stick a tag in right awayJane MacDonald on alt.fiction.original
   • (Can we date this quote?)
     You could combine these two paragraphs, I think, and rewrite to lose the tag portion of the third sentence.bart_...@hotmail.com on alt.fiction.original
8. (music) The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
9. (television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.

   Antonym: cold open

   • 2006, Stephen V. Duncan, A Guide to Screenwriting Success (page 300)

     Often, the tag punctuates the "we're all in this together" theme and is topped with a laugh.

10. (chiefly US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).

    The subwoofer in the trunk was so loud, it vibrated the tag like an aluminum can.

11. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."

    The tag was applied at second for the final out.

12. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.

    The <title> tag provides a title for the Web page.

    The <sarcasm> tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang.

14. (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.

    I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.

15. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
16. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
17. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
18. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Veue of the Present State of Irelande:

      For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag

19. A sheep in its first year.
    • 1807, The Complete Farmer, or, General Dictionary of Agriculture and Husbandry, OCLC 779076327:

      After being weaned, the ram or wedder lamb is sometimes termed hog, hoggit, or tag, during the whole of the first year

20. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
21. (slang) A person's name.

    What's your tag?

Hyponyms

• cashtag
• dart tag
• ear tag
• empty-element tag
• entity tag
• ETag
• hashtag
• laser tag
• price tag
• question tag

 

Derived terms

• tagball
• tagless
• tag question

Translations

small label

• Bulgarian: етикет (bg) m (etiket)
• Catalan: etiqueta f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 標簽／标签 (zh) (biāoqiān)

• Czech: visačka f, etiketa (cs) f, cedulka (cs) f, štítek m
• Dutch: etiket (nl) n
• Esperanto: etikedo
• Finnish: lappu (fi), lappunen (fi), merkki (fi)
• French: étiquette (fr) f
• Georgian: იარლიყი (iarliq̇i)
• German: Etikett (de) n, Marke (de) f, Anhänger (de) m, Schildchen (de) n
• Greek: ετικέτα (el) (etikéta)
• Hungarian: címke (hu), cédula (hu)
• Italian: etichetta (it) f
• Lithuanian: etiketė, gairė
• Macedonian: етике́та f (etikéta), ознака f (oznaka)
• Maori: tapanga
• Norwegian: etikett m, merkelapp m
• Persian: برچسب‎ (fa) (bar-časb), اتیکت‎ (fa) (etiket)
• Plautdietsch: Zadel n
• Polish: metka (pl) f, etykieta (pl) f
• Portuguese: etiqueta (pt)
• Romanian: etichetă (ro)
• Russian: ярлы́к (ru) m (jarlýk), би́рка (ru) f (bírka), этике́тка (ru) f (etikétka), номеро́к (ru) m (nomerók) (ticket with a number)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: етикета f

  Roman: etiketa (sh) f

• Spanish: etiqueta (es) f, marbete (es) m
• Swedish: etikett (sv) c
• Turkish: etiket (tr)

game

• Arabic: زَقِيطَة‎ f (zaqīṭa)
• Armenian: բռնոցի (bṙnocʿi)
• Bulgarian: го́неница (bg) f (gónenica)
• Catalan: tocar i parar (ca)
• Czech: honěná (cs) f, hra na babu f
• Danish: fangeleg (da) c, tagfat
• Dutch: tikkertje (nl) n
• Esperanto: tuŝludo
• Estonian: kull (et), kullimäng (et), läts (dialectal)
• Finnish: hippa (fi), naatta
• French: chat (fr), loup (fr) m
• Galician: pillapilla m, pillada f
• German: Fangen (de) n, Fangspiel (de) n, (regional) Hast'se
• Hebrew: תופסת‎ (he) f (tofeset)
• Hungarian: fogócska (hu)
• Italian: acchiapparello m
• Japanese: 鬼ごっこ (ja) (おにごっこ, onigokko), 鬼事 (おにごと, onigoto), 鬼遊び (おにあそび, oniasobi), おにごっこ (ja)
• Korean: 술래잡기 (sullaejapgi)
• Maori: wi
• Norwegian: sisten
• Polish: berek (pl) m
• Portuguese: pega-pega (pt), apanhada f
• Romanian: leapșa
• Russian: са́лки (ru) f pl (sálki), пятна́шки (ru) f pl (pjatnáški)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: игра шуге f, игра ловице, шуга f, ловица f

  Roman: igra šuge f, igra lovice f, šuga (sh) f, lovica (sh) f

• Spanish: pilla pilla, pillarse (es) m
• Swedish: tafatt (sv) n, datten (sv) c, kull (sv) n
• Turkish: elim sende

skin tag — see skin tag

type of cardboard

• Finnish: korttikartonki

type of graffiti

• Danish: tag (da) c
• Finnish: tagi (fi), tägi (fi), tag (fi)
• German: Tag (de) n
• Hungarian: graffitis névjegy
• Norwegian: tagg (no) m
• Portuguese: tag (pt) f
• Spanish: chapa (es) f
• Swedish: tagg (sv) c

dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung

attribution in narrated dialogue

music: last line or lines of a song's chorus that is repeated

• Bulgarian: припев (bg) m (pripev)
• Finnish: kertosäe (fi)

television: last scene of a TV program

vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data

• Finnish: rekisterikilpi (fi) (vehicle nr plate); tuntolevy (on soldier)

baseball: instance of touching the baserunner with the ball to rule him "out"

• Finnish: polttaminen (fi)

computing: element in a markup language

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 標記／标记 (zh) (biāojì)

• Czech: značka (cs) f
• Esperanto: kradvorto
• Finnish: tagi (fi), tunniste (fi)
• French: balise (fr)
• German: Tag (de) n
• Hebrew: תָּגִית‎ f (tagít)
• Japanese: タグ (ja) (tagu)
• Macedonian: ознака f (oznaka)
• Maori: tūtohu
• Norwegian: tag (no) m
• Polish: znacznik (pl) m, tag (pl) m
• Russian: тег (ru) m (teg), тэг (ru) m (tɛg)
• Swedish: tagg (sv) c
• Ukrainian: теґ m (teg), тег m (teh)

computing: keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information

• Finnish: tagi (fi), tunniste (fi)
• French: attribut (fr) m
• Ukrainian: теґ m (teg), тег m (teh)

slight appendage

• Finnish: killutin (fi)

stiffening at the end of a string, or lace

• Bulgarian: накрайник (bg) m (nakrajnik)
• Finnish: holkki (fi)

catchword of an actor's speech

something mean and paltry — see rabble

sheep in its first year

• Finnish: vuona (fi)

biochemistry: short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins

• Finnish: merkkipeptidi

slang: person's name

See also

(children's game to avoid being "it"):

• chasey
• dodgeball
• paintball

Verb

tag (third-person singular simple present tags, present participle tagging, simple past and past participle tagged)

1. (transitive) To label (something).
2. (transitive, graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag.
3. (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.

   Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.

4. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.

   He really tagged that ball.

5. (transitive, vulgar, slang, 1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)

   Steve is dying to tag Angie from chemistry class.

6. (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.

   He tagged the runner for the out.

7. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).

   I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.

8. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
   • 1906, O. Henry, By Courier

     A tall young man came striding through the park along the path near which she sat. Behind him tagged a boy carrying a suit-case.

9. (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
10. (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
    • 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:

      He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.

    • 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Eighth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745:

      His courteous host […] / Tags every sentence with some fawning word.

11. To fasten; to attach.
    • a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay

      they began to tag their law with the scraps of philofophy

Antonyms

• (computing): untag

Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun or verb tag

• ear-tag
• tag along
• tag cloud
• tag end
• tag, you're it!
• tag out
• phone tag
• telephone tag
• toe tag

Translations

to label

• Bulgarian: етикетирам (etiketiram)
• Catalan: etiquetar (ca)
• Czech: označit (cs), označkovat
• Finnish: merkitä (fi)
• French: étiqueter (fr)
• Hebrew: טייג‎ (tiyég)
• Italian: etichettare (it), marcare (it)
• Macedonian: означува (označuva)
• Polish: oznaczyć (pl)
• Spanish: etiquetar (es)
• Swedish: märka (sv), etikettera (sv)

to mark with one’s tag (graffiti)

• Czech: tagovat
• Finnish: tagata (fi), tägätä (fi)
• French: taguer (fr)
• Maori: tūtohu
• Navajo: yikʼi naʼaghaz
• Swedish: tagga (sv)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Aramaic תגא‎ (“crown”). Doublet of taj.

Noun

tag (plural tagin)

1. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.

References

• tag at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ATG, GTA, TGA, gat

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• tage (Luserna)

Etymology

From Middle High German tag, tac, from Old High German tag, tac, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz. Cognate with German Tag, English day.

Noun

tag m (plural taaghe)

1. (Sette Comuni) day

Declension

Declension of tag – 1st declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	an	dar	tag	de	taaghe
accusative	an	in	tag	de	taaghe
dative	aname	me	taaghe	in	taaghen

Related terms

• gabüarttag

References

• “tag” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

Noun

tag

1. day
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Tag. Dies.

Derived terms

• knauen tag

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þak (“thatch, roof”), from Proto-Germanic *þaką, cognate with Swedish tak, English thack, thatch, German Dach, Dutch dak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taːˀɣ/, [ˈtˢæˀ(j)]

Noun

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tage)

1. roof

Inflection

Declension of tag

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tag	taget	tage	tagene
genitive	tags	tagets	tages	tagenes

Derived terms

• stråtag
• taganlæg
• tagbeklædning
• tagbjælke
• tagdryp
• tagdækker
• tagdækning
• taghave
• tagkammer
• tagkonstruktion
• tagpap

 

Related terms

• tække

Etymology 2

From Old Norse tak (“hold, grasp”), cognate with Norwegian tak, Swedish tag. Derived from the verb taka (Danish tage).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta(ːˀ)ɣ/, [ˈtˢæˀ(j)], [ˈtˢɑw]

Noun

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tag)

1. hold, grasp, grip
2. stroke (with an oar or with the armes in the water)
3. handling, control

Inflection

Declension of tag

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tag	taget	tag	tagene
genitive	tags	tagets	tags	tagenes

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English tag (since 1985).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɡ/, [ˈtˢæɡ̊]

Noun

tag n (singular definite tagget, plural indefinite tags)

1. tag (signature of a graffiti artist)
2. (computing) tag (markup in an electronic file)

Inflection

Declension of tag

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tag	tagget	tags	taggene
genitive	tags	taggets	tags'	taggenes

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta(ːˀ)/, [ˈtˢæ(ˀ)]

Verb

tag

1. imperative of tage

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tag.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

tag n (plural tags, diminutive tagje n)

1. tag

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑɡ/, [ˈt̪ɑɡ]
• Rhymes: -ɑɡ
• Syllabification^(key): tag

Noun

tag

1. Alternative form of tagi

Declension

Inflection of tag (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		tag	tagit
genitive		tagin	tagien
partitive		tagia	tageja
illative		tagiin	tageihin
		singular	plural
nominative		tag	tagit
accusative	nom.	tag	tagit
	gen.	tagin
genitive		tagin	tagien
partitive		tagia	tageja
inessive		tagissa	tageissa
elative		tagista	tageista
illative		tagiin	tageihin
adessive		tagilla	tageilla
ablative		tagilta	tageilta
allative		tagille	tageille
essive		tagina	tageina
translative		tagiksi	tageiksi
instructive		—	tagein
abessive		tagitta	tageitta
comitative		—	tageineen

Possessive forms of tag (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	tagini	tagimme
2nd person	tagisi	taginne
3rd person	taginsa

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English tag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɡ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɡ

Noun

tag m (plural tags)

1. tag

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taːk/
• Rhymes: -aːk

Verb

tag

1. singular imperative of tagen

Hungarian

Etymology 1

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒɡ]

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: tag
• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

tag (plural tagok)

2. member
3. Synonym of végtag (“limb”)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tag	tagok
accusative	tagot	tagokat
dative	tagnak	tagoknak
instrumental	taggal	tagokkal
causal-final	tagért	tagokért
translative	taggá	tagokká
terminative	tagig	tagokig
essive-formal	tagként	tagokként
essive-modal	tagul	—
inessive	tagban	tagokban
superessive	tagon	tagokon
adessive	tagnál	tagoknál
illative	tagba	tagokba
sublative	tagra	tagokra
allative	taghoz	tagokhoz
elative	tagból	tagokból
delative	tagról	tagokról
ablative	tagtól	tagoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	tagé	tagoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tagéi	tagokéi

Possessive forms of tag
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tagom	tagjaim
2nd person sing.	tagod	tagjaid
3rd person sing.	tagja	tagjai
1st person plural	tagunk	tagjaink
2nd person plural	tagotok	tagjaitok
3rd person plural	tagjuk	tagjaik

Derived terms

• taglal
• tagol
• tagolódik
• tagos
• tagosít
• tagozat
• tagozódik
• tagság
• tagú

 

Compound words

• családtag
• előtag
• klubtag
• szótag
• tagdíj
• tagjelölt
• tagország
• utótag
• végtag

 

Expressions

• alapító tag

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English tag (“piece of markup”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛɡ]
• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Noun

tag (plural tagek)

2. (computing) tag (a piece of markup representing an element in a markup language)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tag	tagek
accusative	taget	tageket
dative	tagnek	tageknek
instrumental	taggel	tagekkel
causal-final	tagért	tagekért
translative	taggé	tagekké
terminative	tagig	tagekig
essive-formal	tagként	tagekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tagben	tagekben
superessive	tagen	tageken
adessive	tagnél	tageknél
illative	tagbe	tagekbe
sublative	tagre	tagekre
allative	taghez	tagekhez
elative	tagből	tagekből
delative	tagről	tagekről
ablative	tagtől	tagektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	tagé	tageké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tagéi	tagekéi

Possessive forms of tag
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tagem	tagjeim
2nd person sing.	taged	tagjeid
3rd person sing.	tagje	tagjei
1st person plural	tagünk	tagjeink
2nd person plural	tagetek	tagjeitek
3rd person plural	tagjük	tagjeik

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English tag (“a piece of graffiti”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛɡ]
• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Noun

tag (plural tagek)

2. tag (graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tag	tagek
accusative	taget	tageket
dative	tagnek	tageknek
instrumental	taggel	tagekkel
causal-final	tagért	tagekért
translative	taggé	tagekké
terminative	tagig	tagekig
essive-formal	tagként	tagekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tagben	tagekben
superessive	tagen	tageken
adessive	tagnél	tageknél
illative	tagbe	tagekbe
sublative	tagre	tagekre
allative	taghez	tagekhez
elative	tagből	tagekből
delative	tagről	tagekről
ablative	tagtől	tagektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	tagé	tageké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tagéi	tagekéi

Possessive forms of tag
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tagem	tagjeim
2nd person sing.	taged	tagjeid
3rd person sing.	tagje	tagjei
1st person plural	tagünk	tagjeink
2nd person plural	tagetek	tagjeitek
3rd person plural	tagjük	tagjeik

Further reading

• tag in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Meriam

Noun

tag

1. arm, hand

Middle High German

Alternative forms

• tac, dach (northern)

Etymology

From Old High German tag, tac, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, whence also Old English dæġ and Old Norse dagr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

Noun

tag m

1. day
2. age, lifetime
3. (politics) convention, congress
4. (in a religious context) judgement day

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Tag

  Alsatian: Dàà (north), Dàj (center), Dàg (south)

  Italian Walser: tag, tog, tàg

  Swabian: Dag

• Bavarian: Da, Dåg, Doch

  Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag, tage

  Mòcheno: ta

  Udinese: tach, ti

• Central Franconian: Daach

  Hunsrik: Daagh, taach

• East Central German:

  Upper Saxon: Dag

• German: Tag

  Esperanto: tago

• Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
• Rhine Franconian: Tach

  Pennsylvania German: Daag

• Transylvanian Saxon: Dåch
• Vilamovian: taog
• Yiddish: טאָג‎ (tog)

Old High German

Alternative forms

• tac, tak, dac, *dag (northern)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, whence also Old English dæġ, Old Norse dagr, Old Dutch and Old Saxon dag, Old High German tag, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɡ/, /taɣ/

Noun

tag m (plural taga)

1. day

   tag after tage

   day after day

Declension

Declension of tag (masculine a-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	tag	taga
accusative	tag	taga
genitive	tages	tago
dative	tage	tagum
instrumental	tagu	—

Derived terms

• *ariōtag
• frīatag
• frōnotag
• tagalih
  • tagalihhen
  • tagalihhes
  • tagalihhida
• sambaztag
• ziestag

Descendants

• Middle High German: tag, tac, dach
  • Alemannic German: Tag

    Alsatian: Dàà (north), Dàj (center), Dàg (south)

    Italian Walser: tag, tog, tàg

    Swabian: Dag

  • Bavarian: Da, Dåg, Doch

    Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag, tage

    Mòcheno: ta

    Udinese: tach, ti

  • Central Franconian: Daach

    Hunsrik: Daagh, taach

  • East Central German:

    Upper Saxon: Dag

  • German: Tag

    Esperanto: tago

  • Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
  • Rhine Franconian: Tach

    Pennsylvania German: Daag

  • Transylvanian Saxon: Dåch
  • Vilamovian: taog
  • Yiddish: טאָג‎ (tog)

References

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English tag, from Middle English tagge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tak/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: tag
• Homophones: tak, Tag

Noun

tag m inan

1. (computing) tag (piece of markup representing an element in a markup language)

   Synonym: znacznik

Declension

Declension of tag

	singular	plural
nominative	tag	tagi
genitive	tagu	tagów
dative	tagowi	tagom
accusative	tag	tagi
instrumental	tagiem	tagami
locative	tagu	tagach
vocative	tagu	tagi

Further reading

• tag in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tag in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tag.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɡi/, /ˈtɛ.ɡi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɡi/, /ˈtɛ.ɡi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɡe/, /ˈtɛ.ɡe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɡ(ɨ)/ [ˈta.ɣ(ɨ)], /ˈtɛ.ɡ(ɨ)/ [ˈtɛ.ɣ(ɨ)]

Noun

tag f or m (plural tags)

1. tag (type of graffiti)
2. an RFID chip, especially one used to unlock electronic door locks, often carried as a key fob
3. (computing) tag (a markup instruction)

Sumerian

Romanization

tag

1. Romanization of 𒋳 (tag)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse tak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑːɡ/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

tag n

1. a grip; a hold (of something)

   Tappa inte taget

   Don’t lose your grip

   Släpp inte taget

   Don’t let go

2. a stroke (with an oar; in swimming)

   Ett tag till med åran

   One more stroke with the oar

3. a while, a moment, a minute, sec, second, tic

   Ett litet tag

   A little while, a second

Declension

Declension of tag
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	tag	taget	tag	tagen
Genitive	tags	tagets	tags	tagens

Derived terms

• få tag i
• hårda tag
• i första taget
• vara i tagen

Verb

tag

1. imperative of taga.

Alternative forms

• ta

Further reading

• tag in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

• ATG

Welsh

Etymology

Back-formation from tagu (“to strangle, to choke”).

Noun

tag m (plural tagau or tagion)

1. choking, suffocation

Derived terms

• llindag (“suffocation; snare; dodder; thrush”)
• tagaradr (“restharrow”)
• tagell (“gill; jowl”)
• tagfa (“choking, throttling; bottleneck”)
• taglys (“bindweed”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tag	dag	nhag	thag
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tag”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse tak, by analogy with taga (“to take”). Also rendered as tak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʰɑ́ːɣ], [tʰáːɣ], [tʰǽːɣ]

  Rhymes: -áːɣ

Noun

tag n (definite singular tagjä, dative tagjän)

1. Grip, hold.
2. Advantage.

   Han fekk säg ä bra tag

   He got a good advantage

Alternative forms

• tak

Etymology 2

From Old Norse taug, tog, from Proto-Germanic *taugō, *tugą.

Noun

tag n (definite singular tagjä, dative tagjän)

1. A rope.

Synonyms

• raip

Etymology 3

Verb

tag

1. singular present of taga
2. singular imperative of taga