tige

See also: tǐgé

English

Etymology

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

Noun

tige (plural tiges)

  1. (firearms, historical) A steel pin in early rifles.
  2. A stalk.
  3. The shaft of a column.

Anagrams

Estonian

Etymology

Related to Livonian tig.

Adjective

tige (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. angry

French

Etymology

From Old French tige, from Latin tībia. Compare the borrowed doublet tibia.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tiʒ/
  • audio (CA)(file)

Noun

tige f (plural tiges)

  1. stem (of a plant etc.)
  2. sapling
  3. shank
  4. (dated) ciggie, cig, fag, smoke

Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtʲɪɟɪ/

Verb

tige

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

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tige thige dtige
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Alternative forms
  • taige

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtʲiɣʲe/

Noun

tige n

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

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
tige thige tige
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

West Frisian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtiːɣə/

Adjective

tige

  1. much, many

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

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
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