wig

See also: WIG, wīǵ, and wig-

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EnglishEdit

Colorful wigs.

EtymologyEdit

Shortening of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque.

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: wĭg, IPA^(key): /wɪɡ/

• Audio (US)

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Rhymes: -ɪɡ

• Homophone: Whig (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

NounEdit

wig (plural wigs)

1. A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.
2. (dated, among fishermen) An old seal.

SynonymsEdit

• hairpiece
• toupee, toupe
• peruke
• periwig

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• bald wig
• bewigged
• fright wig

• wigmaker
• wig out

TranslationsEdit

head of artificial hair

• Arabic: شَعْر مُسْتَعَار‏‎ m (šaʿr mustaʿār), بَارُوكَة‏‎ f (bārūka)
• Armenian: կեղծամ (hy) (kełcam)
• Basque: ileorde
• Belarusian: парык m (parýk)
• Bulgarian: перука f (perúka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 假髮 (zh), 假发 (zh) (jiǎfà)

• Cornish: peruken f
• Czech: paruka (cs) f
• Danish: paryk (da) c
• Dutch: pruik (nl) m
• Erzya: суречерьть (surečerʹtʹ)
• Esperanto: peruko
• Finnish: peruukki (fi)
• French: perruque (fr) f
• Georgian: პარიკი (ṗariḳi)
• German: Perücke (de) f
• Greek: περούκα (el) f (peroúka)
• Hebrew: פֵּאָה‏‎ (he) f (peá), פֵּאָה נָכְרִית‏‎ (he) f (peá nochrít)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: paróka (hu)
• Icelandic: hárkolla (is) f
• Ido: peruko (io)
• Irish: bréagfholt m
• Italian: parrucca (it) f
• Japanese: 鬘 (ja) (かつら, katsura, かずら, kazura), 仮髪 (かはつ, kahatsu), ウィッグ (wiggu)
• Korean: 가발 (ko) (gabal) (假髮 (ko)), 덧머리 (ko) (deonmeori) (North Korea)
• Latin: capillamentum
• Latvian: parūka
• Lithuanian: perukas
• Low German:

  German Low German: Prüük f

• Luxembourgish: Parréck f
• Macedonian: перика f (périka)
• Manx: far folt, mwashag
• Maori: hururua, makawe kēhua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: parykk (no) m

  Nynorsk: parykk m

• Occitan: perruca
• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Ossetian: парик (parik)
• Persian: کلاه‌گیس‏‎ (kolâh-gis)
• Polish: peruka (pl) f
• Portuguese: peruca (pt) f
• Romanian: perucă (ro) f
• Russian: пари́к (ru) m (parík)
• Scottish Gaelic: piorbhaig f, gruag-bhrèige m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: перика f, власуља f

  Roman: perika (sh) f, vlasulja (sh) f

• Slovak: parochňa f
• Slovene: lasulja (sl) f
• Spanish: peluca (es) f
• Swedish: peruk (sv) c
• Thai: ผมปลอม (pŏm bplom), วิก (wík)
• Turkish: peruka (tr), peruk (tr)
• Ukrainian: перука (uk) f (perúka)
• Vietnamese: bộ tóc giả
• Volapük: herot (vo), (obsolete) helot
• Welsh: wig (cy) m

VerbEdit

wig (third-person singular simple present wigs, present participle wigging, simple past and past participle wigged)

1. To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
2. (colloquial) To upbraid, reprimand.
3. (colloquial) To become very excitable or emotional; to lose control of one's emotions.

Related termsEdit

• wig out

See alsoEdit

• earwig
• merkin
• periwig
• peruke

Further readingEdit

• wig on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• wig in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

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AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Dutch wig.

NounEdit

wig (plural wîe)

1. wedge
2. quoin

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɪx
• IPA^(key): /ʋɪx/

NounEdit

wig f (plural wiggen, diminutive wiggetje n)

1. wedge

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GothicEdit

RomanizationEdit

wig

1. Romanization of 𐍅𐌹𐌲

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Old EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /wiːj/

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Germanic *wīgą, from Proto-Indo-European *weyk-.

NounEdit

wīġ n

1. war, battle

   Oft ic wig seo, frecne feohtan: often I see war, brave men fighting. (AS Riddles)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of wig (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	wīġ	wīġ
accusative	wīġ	wīġ
genitive	wīġes	wīġa
dative	wīġe	wīġum

Related termsEdit

• wiga
• Ludwig
• Jadwiga
• Hedwig

Etymology 2Edit

Variant of weoh.

NounEdit

wīġ m

1. idol

Derived termsEdit

• wīġweorþung

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Old SaxonEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Germanic *wīgą, from Proto-Indo-European *weyk-.

NounEdit

wīg n

1. war, battle

DeclensionEdit

Declension of wīg (neuter a-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	wīg	wīg
accusative	wīg	wīg
genitive	wīges	wīgō
dative	wīge	wīgum
instrumental	—	—

Etymology 2Edit

From Proto-Germanic *wigją.

NounEdit

wig n

1. horse, steed

DeclensionEdit

Declension of wig (neuter ja-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	wig	wig
accusative	wig	wig
genitive	wiggies	wiggiō
dative	wiggie	wiggium
instrumental	—	—