tig

Clipping of English Tigre, from Tigre ትግሬ (təgre).

tig

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Tigre.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tigre terms

• IPA^(key): /tɪɡ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Dialectal variant of tick, from Middle English ticken, tiken. More at tick.

tig (third-person singular simple present tigs, present participle tigging, simple past and past participle tigged)

1. (dialectal) To touch lightly or playfully; to trifle, dally.

tig (plural tigs)

1. (dialectal) A light touch; a tap or pat.
2. (England apart from the south, Scotland, Ireland) 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.

• tyg

tig (plural tigs)

1. (historical) A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.

• tig bitties / tig ol' bitties (etymologyically unrelated)

• GTi, IGT, TGI, git

From tig-.

tig

1. (often humorous, derogatory) a gofer; a worker who runs errands

From the suffix -tig (“-ty”) used to form multiples of ten, after German zig.

• IPA^(key): /tɪx/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɪx

tig

1. (informal) tens, dozens, lots, umpteen

   Ik kan wel tig redenen bedenken waarom dit fout is!

   I can think of dozens of reasons why this is wrong!

From French tigre (“tiger”).

• IPA^(key): /tiɡ/

tig

1. tiger

• IPA^(key): /tʲɪɟ/

From Old Irish ·ticc, prototonic form of do·icc (“comes”).

tig

1. present indicative analytic of tar

   Tig sé abhaile ar a sé a chloch.

   He comes home at six o’clock.

The form tig is especially common in tar le (“be able”).

Variant form of tuig.

tig (present analytic tigeann, future analytic tigfidh, verbal noun tiscint, past participle tigthe)

1. Cois Fharraige form of tuig (“to understand”)

Pronunciation spelling based on the fact that word-final -igh and -ig are pronounced the same in Munster.

tig m (genitive singular tí, nominative plural tithe)

1. Munster spelling of tigh (“house”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiˀɡ/, [ˈtiˀɡ̥]

From Proto-Finnic *tiki. Related to Estonian tige.

ti’g (comparative (ve’l) jo ti’g, superlative amā ti’g)

1. mean, wicked
2. bad (mood, taste, etc.)

ti’g

1. evil

From Proto-Finnic *tuki.

ti’g

1. support, prop

• Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “ti'g”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

tīg f

1. alternative form of tēag

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̠ʲiɣʲ/

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• taig

tig n

1. dative singular of tech

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tig

1. genitive singular masculine/neuter of tiug

• IPA^(key): /d̥ʲikʲ/, /d̥ʲʒik/ (as if spelled dig)

tig

1. future of thig

• This is the dependent form, the basic form being thig.

• Rhymes: -iːɡ

tig

1. imperative of tiga

From Vietnamese đi ("to go", "to walk), borrowed with a more restrictive definition.

tig

1. (of vehicles) to turn
2. to revolve; to rotate