tig
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tig
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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
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tig (uncountable)
- (Ireland, UK) The children's game of tag.
- 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 36:
- One evening when playing tig she had put her hands over his eyes: long and white and thin and cold and soft.
See also edit
- tig bitties / tig ol' bitties (etymologyically unrelated)
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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 (“-ty”) used to form multiples of ten, after German zig.
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tig
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tig
Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Irish ·ticc, prototonic form of do·icc (“comes”).
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tig
- 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 (genitive singular tí, nominative plural tithe)
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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. |
References edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tig”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Livonian edit
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Related to Estonian tige. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
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tig
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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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tig n
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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tig
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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. |
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tig
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- This is the dependent form, the basic form being thig.
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- Rhymes: -iːɡ
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tig
- imperative of tiga
White Hmong edit
Etymology edit
From Vietnamese đi ("to go", "to walk), borrowed with a more restrictive definition.
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