# vig
## English
### Etymology

Clipping of vigorish, from Yiddish וויגריש (vigrish), from Russian вы́игрыш (výigryš, “winnings”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɪɡ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪɡ

### Noun

vig (countable and uncountable, plural vigs)
* (slang) Synonym of vigorish (“charge taken on bets”)
** 1984, John Patrick, Craps, →ISBN, page 11:The house sets vigs on any game they allow you to bet on. It is your responsibility to play only those games where the vig is not prohibitive. Let's take one more look at how vigorish works for the house.
** 2009, Wayne L. Winston, Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics, page 256:The bookmaker's mean profit per dollar bet is called vigorish or “the vig.” In our example, 11 + 11 = $22 is bet, and the bookmaker wins $1 so the vig is 1/22 = 4.5%.
** 2016, Mark Andersch, By an Addict, for an Addict‎, →ISBN:The vig is like your "tax" paid on a bet which goes to the bookie. For example, every $100 I would bet, I had a vig of $10. So if I bet $500 and lost that bet, I would owe $550. Trust me, when you don't win, the vigs add up quick!
* (US slang, crime) Synonym of vigorish (“interest from a loan, as from a loan shark”)
** 1973, Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin (screenplay), Mean Streets, quoted in 2009, Ellis Cashmore, Martin Scorsese's America, page 118,
    “You charged a guy from the neighborhood $1800 vig?” he asks incredulously (“vig” is short for vigorish, meaning a rate of interest from a loan from an illegal moneylender).
** 2005, F. P. Lione, The Crossroads (Midtown Blue Book; 2), page 100:The guy was probably professional muscle, a leg breaker who collects vig for a loan shark. (Vig is a mob term for interest on loans to a loan shark.)
** 2009, Davinia Bostick, The Match, →ISBN, page 91:"Look, I know I owe you and I know I'm late but I'm good for it. I am. In fact I'll pay you triple what I owe. Triple! Plus the missing vigs, but I need some help first."
* Synonym of vigorish (“commission, finder's fee, or similar extra charge”)

## Albanian
### Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *uig-, from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to revolve, turn, twist”). Cognate to Old English wice (“patch”) and Old Norse vik (“bight”).

### Noun

vig m (plural vigje, definite vigu, definite plural vigjet)
* stretcher, litter, bier, transition (consisting of beams)

#### Derived terms

* vigan

### References

* ↑ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 418
* Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “vig”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 507

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /viːˀ/, [ˈʋiˀ]
* Homophone: hvi

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse vík, from Proto-Germanic *wīkō (“village; inlet”), cognate with Norwegian, Swedish vik, English wick, Dutch wijk. Borrowed from Latin vīcus.

#### Noun

vig c (singular definite vigen, plural indefinite vige)
* inlet (arm of the sea)

##### Derived terms

* mundvig

#### References

* “vig” in Den Danske Ordbog

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

vig
* imperative of vige

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse vígr.

### Noun

vig m (definite singular vigen, indefinite plural vigar, definite plural vigane)
* fight, battle (only used in given names)

#### Related terms

Male given names:
* Alvig
* Hardvig
* Hjalmvige
* Vig
* Vigar
* Vigbjart
* Vigbjord
* Vigbjørn
* Vigbrand
* Vigbrodd
* Vigdjarv
* Vige
* Vigfast
* Vigfus
* Vigge, Viggo
* Vighard
* Vighjalm
* Vigkvat
* Vigleik
* Vigloge
* Viglund
* Vigmann
* Vigmar
* Vigmund
* Vignjot
* Vigolv, Vigulv
* Vigorm
* Vigråd
* Vigstein
* Vigsterk
* Vigtorn
* Vigvald
* Vigvard
Female given names:
* Vigdis
* Vigglod
* Viglaug
* Vigunn

### References

* “vig” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
* Eivind Vågslid (1988) Norderlendske fyrenamn (in Norwegian Nynorsk), →ISBN, page 398

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian vég.

### Noun

vig n (plural viguri)
* bolt of fabric

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /viːɡ/
* Rhymes: -iːɡ

### Verb

vig
* imperative of viga

### Adjective

vig (comparative vigare, superlative vigast)
* (of a person) limber, supple
    Han var så vig att han kunde lägga foten bakom huvudetHe was so flexible that he could put his foot behind his head

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

### Further reading

* vig in Svensk ordbok.

### Anagrams

* giv

## Volapük
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [viɡ]

### Noun

vig (nominative plural vigs)
* week
* sennight, sevennight

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only