tige

See also: tǐgé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tige (“stem”), from Latin tibia (“shin bone, leg”). Doublet of tibia.

Noun

tige (plural tiges)

1. (firearms, historical) A steel pin in early rifles.
2. (botany, archaic) A stem.
   • 1829, Mrs. Lincoln Phelps, Familiar Lectures on Botany, page 50:

     The tige is either simple, as in the White Lily, or branching, as in the Geranium; the branching is the most common form; […]

Anagrams

• gite, gîte

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tikëda. Related to Livonian tig.

Adjective

tige (genitive tigeda, partitive tigedat, comparative tigedam, superlative kõige tigedam or tigedaim)

1. angry

Declension

Declension of tige (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		tige	tigedad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	tigeda
genitive			tigedate
partitive		tigedat	tigedaid
illative		tigedasse	tigedatesse tigedaisse
inessive		tigedas	tigedates tigedais
elative		tigedast	tigedatest tigedaist
allative		tigedale	tigedatele tigedaile
adessive		tigedal	tigedatel tigedail
ablative		tigedalt	tigedatelt tigedailt
translative		tigedaks	tigedateks tigedaiks
terminative		tigedani	tigedateni
essive		tigedana	tigedatena
abessive		tigedata	tigedateta
comitative		tigedaga	tigedatega

Further reading

• “tige”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

French

Etymology

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Latin tībia

Old French tige

French tige

Inherited from Old French tige, from Latin tībia. Doublet of tibia (“shin”), which was borrowed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiʒ/

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Noun

tige f (plural tiges)

1. (botany) stem (of a plant etc.)
2. sapling
3. shank
4. (dated) ciggie, cig, fag, smoke
   • 2016, Jacques Tardi, Dominique Grange, Le dernier assaut, Bruxelles; Paris: Casterman, →ISBN, page 11:

     On se roule une tige à la sortie du boyau, à la croix du Jesus.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• coton-tige (“cotton swab”)

Descendants

• → Catalan: tija

Further reading

• “tige”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• gîte

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲɪɟɪ/

Verb

tige

1. (Ulster, parts of Munster) alternative form of taga, present subjunctive analytic of tar

Mutation

Mutated forms of tige

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tige	thige	dtige

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Malay

Pronunciation

• (Southern Peninsular Malaysia Standard) IPA^(key): /ˈtiɡə/ [ˈt̪i.ɡə]
• Rhymes: -iɡə
• Hyphenation: ti‧ge

Numeral

tige

1. (Kuala Lumpur) pronunciation spelling of tiga

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English tyge, from Proto-West Germanic *tugi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtij(ə)/

Noun

tige (plural tiges)

1. (Early Middle English, hapax legomenon) draught, drink

Descendants

• Yola: ty

References

• “tige, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.je/
• Rhymes: -iː.je

Verb

tīġe

1. inflection of tīġan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• taige

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̠ʲi.ɣʲe/

Noun

tige n

1. inflection of tech:
   1. genitive singular
   2. genitive dual
   3. nominative/vocative/accusative and genitive plural

Mutation

Mutation of tige

radical	lenition	nasalization
tige	thige	tige pronounced with /d̪̠ʲ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Swedish

Verb

tige

1. (archaic) present subjunctive of tiga

West Frisian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːɣə/

Adjective

tige

1. much, many

Inflection

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Further reading

• “tige”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Adverb

tige

1. much, very

   Tige tank! ― Thank you very much!

Further reading

• “tige”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011