viga

Borrowed from Spanish viga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːɡə/

viga (plural vigas)

1. A roughly-made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village
   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses

     The vigas were partly down and hunters or herdsmen had built fires in the floor.

• GAVI, vagi

viga f (plural vigues)

1. beam

Cognate with Finnish vika.

viga (genitive vea, partitive viga)

1. mistake, fault

viga

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of vigere

• Gavi, vagì

• (Courland) vigā

From Proto-Finnic *vika.

viga

1. fault

From Proto-Finnic *vika.

viga

1. flaw
2. defect

Origin uncertain; probably from Latin bīga ‘tree-trunk’. Cognate with Spanish viga, Catalan biga, Occitan biga.

• Hyphenation: vi‧ga

viga f (plural vigas)

1. beam (large piece of timber or iron)

• trave

Origin uncertain; probably from Latin bīga ‘tree-trunk’. Cognate with Portuguese viga, Catalan biga, Occitan biga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiɡa/
• Hyphenation: vi‧ga

viga f (plural vigas)

1. timber, beam, rafter

viga

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of vig.

From Old Swedish vīghia, from Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *wīhijaną.

viga (present viger, preterite vigde, supine vigt, imperative vig)

1. to marry; to unite in wedlock or matrimony
2. to devote something for a specific purpose

   Han har vigt sitt liv åt att hjälpa andra.

   He has devoted his life to helping others.

• inviga
• vigsel
• vigvatten

• gifta

From Proto-Finnic *vika.

viga

1. flaw
2. defect
3. failure, malfunction
4. damage
5. mistake

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “брак, дефект, изъян, неисправность, ошибка, повод, повреждение, порок, упущение”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

viga

1. genitive singular of vig