Tig in Scrabble and Meaning

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Definitions and meaning of tig

tig

Translingual

Symbol

tig

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tigre terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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.

Noun

tig (plural tigs)

1. (dialectal) A light touch; a tap or pat.
2. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) The children's game of tag.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• tyg

Noun

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.

See also

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

Anagrams

• GTi, IGT, TGI, git

Cebuano

Etymology

From tig-.

Noun

tig

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

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪx/
• Rhymes: -ɪx

Determiner

tig

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

Derived terms

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French tigre (“tiger”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiɡ/

Noun

tig

1. tiger

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲɪɟ/

Etymology 1

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

Verb

tig

1. present indicative analytic of tar

Usage notes

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

Etymology 2

Variant form of tuig.

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

Etymology 3

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

Noun

tig m (genitive singular tí, nominative plural tithe)

1. Munster spelling of tigh (“house”)

Declension

Mutation

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tig”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Livonian

Etymology

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

Adjective

tig

1. angry

Old English

Noun

tīg f

1. alternative form of tēag

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲiɣʲ/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

• taig

Noun

tig n

1. dative singular of tech

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

tig

1. genitive singular masculine/neuter of tiug

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

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

Verb

tig

1. future of thig

Usage notes

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

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːɡ

Verb

tig

1. imperative of tiga

White Hmong

Etymology

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

Verb

tig

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

Source: wiktionary.org