sig

See also: SIG

English

Etymology 1

A shortened form of signature.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sĭg, IPA(key): /sɪɡ/
  • Homophone: cig

Noun

sig (plural sigs)

  1. (informal) A signature, usually when used as a digital signature on emails.
    • 1995, Vince Emery, How to grow your business on the Internet
      Your sig should ideally be four or five lines long, six or seven at the maximum. Since it will be repeated on hundreds of messages, a long signature wastes bandwidth and is therefore rude.
    • 2004, Brad Hill, Building Your Business with Google For Dummies (page 48)
      Posting good content is the best way to get people clicking your sig link.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English sige. Cognate with Middle Dutch seic, seike, Middle Low German seyche. Related also to sink (to fall).

Noun

sig (uncountable)

  1. (Britain, dialectal, dated) Urine.

Anagrams


Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sik, from Proto-Germanic *sik.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saj/, [sɑj]
  • Rhymes: -aj
  • Rhymes: -iːˀ

Pronoun

sig

  1. (reflexive) third-person pronoun
    Hunden slikkede sig ren.
    The dog licked itself clean.
Usage notes

For all other persons (both singular and plural) the personal accusative pronoun is used.

See also

Etymology 2

See sige.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /siː/, [siːˀ]

Verb

sig

  1. imperative of sige

Faroese

Verb

sig

  1. imperative singular form of siga

Conjugation


Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɪːɣ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪːɣ

Noun

sig n (genitive singular sigs, nominative plural sig)

  1. subsidence, (a sinking of something to a lower level)
  2. prolapse, a moving out of place, especially a protrusion of an internal organ syn.

Declension

Synonyms
  • (prolapse): def. framfall
Derived terms
  • jarðsig
  • sig í bjarg (rappeling down a cliff face)
See also

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sik, from Proto-Germanic *sik.

Alternative forms

Pronoun

sig

  1. (reflexive) accusative third person reflexive pronoun meaning oneself (and also depending on context himself, herself, itself and themselves)
    Hann drap sig.
    He killed himself.
    Hún drap sig.
    She killed herself.
Declension
Declension of the word sig
singular plural
indef def indef def
nominative - - - -
accusative sig, sik sig, sik sig, sik sig, sik
dative sér sér sér sér
genitive sín sín sín sín
Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

sig

  1. present tense of siga
  2. imperative of siga

Swedish

Alternative forms

  • sej (strongly colloquial)

Etymology

From Old Norse sik, from Proto-Germanic *sek, from Proto-Indo-European *se.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɛj/
  • Homophones: sej, säg
  • Rhymes: -ɛj

Pronoun

sig

  1. reflexive case of han, hon, den, det, de or man; compare himself, herself, itself, themselves, oneself
    Antagligen skulle han vilja lära sig jonglera.
    He would probably like to learn how to juggle.
    Hon lärde sig själv.
    She taught herself.
    Skar de sig på knivarna?
    Did they cut themselves on the knives?

Declension

See also


Western Apache

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *-x̯ɑ̓t. Cognates include Navajo sid, Mescalero sįh.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sɪ̀k]

Noun

sig

  1. scar

Usage notes

The form sig in the White Mountain variety; sid occurs in White Mountain and Dilzhe’eh (Tonto); shig occurs in Cibecue; shid occurs in Dilzhe’eh and San Carlos varieties;

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