# tag
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: tăg, IPA: /tæɡ/
* (North American also) IPA: /teɪɡ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -æɡ

#### Noun

tag (plural tags)
* (heading) Physical appendage.
** A small label.
** A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
** A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
** Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
** A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
** (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
** Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.
*** 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag
* (heading) Last nonphysical appendage.
** (music) The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
** (television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
    Antonym: cold open
*** 2006, Stephen V. Duncan, A Guide to Screenwriting Success, page 300:Often, the tag punctuates the "we're all in this together" theme and is topped with a laugh.
** The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
* (heading) Nonphysical label.
** (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
    Synonyms: dialogue tag, speech tag, tag line
*** (Can we date this quote?), michael, alt.fiction.original‎ (Usenet):Seems here like Russ would be speaking. You could use a tag here.
*** (Can we date this quote?), Jane MacDonald, alt.fiction.original‎ (Usenet):If you want to start with talk, stick a tag in right away
*** (Can we date this quote?), bart_...@hotmail.com, alt.fiction.original‎ (Usenet):You could combine these two paragraphs, I think, and rewrite to lose the tag portion of the third sentence.
** (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
    The <title> tag provides a title for the Web page.
    The <sarcasm> tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang.
** (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
    I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.
* (heading) Identity.
** (chiefly US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
    The subwoofer in the trunk was so loud, it vibrated the tag like an aluminum can.
** (slang) A person's name.
    What’s your tag?
* (heading) Involving being tagged physically.
** (uncountable) A game, especially for children on playgrounds, in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it"; any similar game of chasing and trying to reach, touch, shoot, or label other players.
    Synonyms: (Australia) tips, (UK) it
    Hyponyms: archery tag, dart tag, freeze tag, laser tag, zombie tag
** (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
    The tag was applied at second for the final out.
* (heading) Signature.
** Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
*** 2011, Scape Martinez, Graff 2: Next Level Graffiti Techniques, page 124:There is a hierarchy of sorts: a throw-up can go over a tag, a piece over a throw-up, and a burner over a piece.
* A type of cardboard.
* A sheep in its first year.
** 1807, The Complete Farmer, or, General Dictionary of Agriculture and Husbandry, →OCLC:After being weaned, the ram or wedder lamb is sometimes termed hog, hoggit, or tag, during the whole of the first year

##### Hyponyms

* accent tag
* archery tag
* bread tag
* cashtag
* dart tag
* dialog tag
* dog tag
* ear tag
* empty-element tag
* entity tag
* ETag
* e-tag
* fag tag
* freeze tag
* fusion tag
* hashtag
* HA-tag
* ho tag
* laser tag
* meta tag
* oak-tag
* oak tag
* on tag
* paired-end tag
* pet tag
* price tag
* producer tag
* question tag
* radio-tag
* radio tag
* ragtag
* red tag
* return tag
* scaff tag
* short tag
* skin-tag
* slag tag
* tag-along right
* tag day
* tag off
* tag on
* tag-rag
* tag-rag and bobtail
* tag rugby
* tag sale
* tag soup
* tag strip
* tag team
* tag-team
* tag up
* tag wrestling
* toe-tag
* tone tag
* treasury tag
* zombie tag

##### Derived terms

* ear-tag
* ink tag
* nametag
* phone tag, telephone tag
* swing tag
* tag alder
* tagball
* tag cloud
* tag end
* tag group
* tagless
* tag line
* tag question
* tag-team, tag team
* tag, you're it
* toe tag

##### See also

(children's game to avoid being "it"):
* chasey
* dodgeball
* paintball

#### Verb

tag (third-person singular simple present tags, present participle tagging, simple past and past participle tagged)
* (transitive) To label (something).
* (transitive) To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
* (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
    Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.
* (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
    He really tagged that ball.
* (transitive, vulgar, slang, 1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
    Steve is dying to tag Angie from chemistry class.
* (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
    He tagged the runner for the out.
* (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
    Antonym: untag
    I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.
* (transitive, Internet) To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
** 2021, Julie B. Wiest, Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age, page 82:One side wants to demonstrate a higher level of street knowledge and openly denounces the distorting lens of Instagram dissings; the other embraces the medium's branding affordances by sending “clout” to a third-party ally, while at the same time avoiding tagging the opponent.
* To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
** 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “By Courier”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC:A tall young man came striding through the park along the path near which she sat. Behind him tagged a boy carrying a suit-case.
* (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
* (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
** 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica‎:He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.
** 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Eighth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:His courteous host […] / Tags every sentence with some fawning word.
* To fasten; to attach.
** a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
    they began to tag their law with the scraps of philofophy

##### Derived terms

* bag and tag
* retag
* tag along
* tagged (adjective)
* tagger
* tagging (noun)
* tag out

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Aramaic תגא (taga, “crown”). Doublet of taj.

#### Noun

tag (plural tagin or tagim)
* A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.

### References

* “tag”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Further reading

* tag (Hebrew writing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* tag (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* ATG, GTA, TGA, gat

## Cimbrian
### Alternative forms

* tage (Luserna)

### Etymology

From Middle High German tag, tac, from Old High German tag, tac, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz. Cognate with German Tag, English day.

### Noun

tag m (plural taaghe)
* (Sette Comuni) day

#### Related terms

* gabüarttag

### References

* “tag” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

## Crimean Gothic
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

### Noun

tag
* day
** 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, (Please provide the book title or journal name):Tag. Dies.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Derived terms

* knauen tag

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse þak (“thatch, roof”), from Proto-Germanic *þaką, cognate with Swedish tak, English thack, thatch, German Dach, Dutch dak.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taːˀɣ/, [ˈtˢæˀ(j)]

#### Noun

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tage)
* roof

##### Derived terms

* stråtag
* taganlæg
* tagbeklædning
* tagbjælke
* tagdryp
* tagdækker
* tagdækning
* taghave
* tagkammer
* tagkonstruktion
* tagpap

##### Related terms

* tække

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse tak (“hold, grasp”), cognate with Norwegian tak, Swedish tag. Derived from the verb taka (Danish tage).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ta(ːˀ)ɣ/, [ˈtˢæˀ(j)], [ˈtˢɑw]

#### Noun

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tag)
* hold, grasp, grip
* stroke (with an oar or with the armes in the water)
* handling, control

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

Borrowed from English tag (since 1985).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taɡ/, [ˈtˢæɡ̊]

#### Noun

tag n (singular definite tagget, plural indefinite tags)
* tag (signature of a graffiti artist)
* (computing) tag (markup in an electronic file)

##### Declension
### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ta(ːˀ)/, [ˈtˢæ(ˀ)]

#### Verb

tag
* imperative of tage

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English tag.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tag n (plural tags, diminutive tagje n)
* tag

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɑɡ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ɡ]
* Rhymes: -ɑɡ
* Hyphenation: tag

### Noun

tag
* Alternative form of tagi

#### Declension

Possessive forms of tag (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
tagini
tagini
accusative
nom.
tagini
tagini
gen.
tagini
genitive
tagini
tagieni
partitive
tagiani
tagejani
inessive
tagissani
tageissani
elative
tagistani
tageistani
illative
tagiini
tageihini
adessive
tagillani
tageillani
ablative
tagiltani
tageiltani
allative
tagilleni
tageilleni
essive
taginani
tageinani
translative
tagikseni
tageikseni
abessive
tagittani
tageittani
instructive
comitative
—tageineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
tagisi
tagisi
accusative
nom.
tagisi
tagisi
gen.
tagisi
genitive
tagisi
tagiesi
partitive
tagiasi
tagejasi
inessive
tagissasi
tageissasi
elative
tagistasi
tageistasi
illative
tagiisi
tageihisi
adessive
tagillasi
tageillasi
ablative
tagiltasi
tageiltasi
allative
tagillesi
tageillesi
essive
taginasi
tageinasi
translative
tagiksesi
tageiksesi
abessive
tagittasi
tageittasi
instructive
comitative
—tageinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
tagimme
tagimme
accusative
nom.
tagimme
tagimme
gen.
tagimme
genitive
tagimme
tagiemme
partitive
tagiamme
tagejamme
inessive
tagissamme
tageissamme
elative
tagistamme
tageistamme
illative
tagiimme
tageihimme
adessive
tagillamme
tageillamme
ablative
tagiltamme
tageiltamme
allative
tagillemme
tageillemme
essive
taginamme
tageinamme
translative
tagiksemme
tageiksemme
abessive
tagittamme
tageittamme
instructive
comitative
—tageinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
taginne
taginne
accusative
nom.
taginne
taginne
gen.
taginne
genitive
taginne
tagienne
partitive
tagianne
tagejanne
inessive
tagissanne
tageissanne
elative
tagistanne
tageistanne
illative
tagiinne
tageihinne
adessive
tagillanne
tageillanne
ablative
tagiltanne
tageiltanne
allative
tagillenne
tageillenne
essive
taginanne
tageinanne
translative
tagiksenne
tageiksenne
abessive
tagittanne
tageittanne
instructive
comitative
—tageinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
taginsa
taginsa
accusative
nom.
taginsa
taginsa
gen.
taginsa
genitive
taginsa
tagiensa
partitive
tagiaan tagiansa
tagejaan tagejansa
inessive
tagissaan tagissansa
tageissaan tageissansa
elative
tagistaan tagistansa
tageistaan tageistansa
illative
tagiinsa
tageihinsa
adessive
tagillaan tagillansa
tageillaan tageillansa
ablative
tagiltaan tagiltansa
tageiltaan tageiltansa
allative
tagilleen tagillensa
tageilleen tageillensa
essive
taginaan taginansa
tageinaan tageinansa
translative
tagikseen tagiksensa
tageikseen tageiksensa
abessive
tagittaan tagittansa
tageittaan tageittansa
instructive
comitative
—tageineen tageinensa :

### Further reading

* “tag”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English tag.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taɡ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɡ

### Noun

tag m (plural tags)
* tag

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taːk/
* Rhymes: -aːk

### Verb

tag
* singular imperative of tagen

## Hungarian
### Etymology 1

Of unknown origin.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɒɡ]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: tag
* Rhymes: -ɒɡ

#### Noun

tag (plural tagok)
* member
* Synonym of végtag (“limb”)

##### Derived terms

* taglal
* tagol
* tagolódik
* tagos
* tagosít
* tagozat
* tagozódik
* tagság
* tagú
* családtag
* előtag
* klubtag
* párttag
* szótag
* tagdíj
* tagjelölt
* taglejtés
* tagország
* utótag
* végtag
* alapító tag

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English tag (“piece of markup”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɛɡ]
* Rhymes: -ɛɡ

#### Noun

tag (plural tagek)
* (computing) tag (a piece of markup representing an element in a markup language)

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

Borrowed from English tag (“a piece of graffiti”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɛɡ]
* Rhymes: -ɛɡ

#### Noun

tag (plural tagek)
* tag (graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist)

##### Declension
### References

* ↑ tag in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* tag in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Meriam
### Noun

tag
* arm, hand

## Middle High German
### Noun

tag m
* Alternative form of tac

#### Declension
## Old High German
### Alternative forms

* tac, tak, dac, *dag — northern

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, whence also Old English dæġ, Old Norse dagr, Old Dutch and Old Saxon dag, Old High German tag, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taɡ/, /taɣ/

### Noun

tag m (plural taga)
* day
    tag after tage
       day after day

#### Derived terms

* *ariōtag
* frīatag
* frōnotag
* tagalih
** tagalihhen
** tagalihhes
** tagalihhida
* sambaztag
* ziestag

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: tac, tag, dach
** Alemannic German: Tag
    Alsatian: Dàà (north), Dàj (center), Dàg (south)
    Italian Walser: tag, tog, tàg
    Swabian: Dag
** Bavarian: Da, Dåg, Doch
    Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag, tage
    Mòcheno: ta
    Udinese: tach, ti
** Central Franconian: Daach
    Hunsrik: Daagh, taach (Wiesemann spelling system), Tóch, Tooch (Altenhofen spelling)
** East Central German:
    Upper Saxon German: Dag
** German: Tag
    Esperanto: tago
** Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
** Rhine Franconian: Tach
    Pennsylvania German: Daag
** Transylvanian Saxon: Dåch
** Vilamovian: taog
** Yiddish: טאָג (tog)

### References

* Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English tag.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtak/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ak
* Syllabification: tag
* Homophones: Tag, tak

### Noun

tag m inan
* (computing) tag (piece of markup representing an element in a markup language)
    Synonym: znacznik

#### Declension
### Further reading

* tag in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* tag in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tag.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈta.ɡi/, /ˈtɛ.ɡi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈta.ɡi/, /ˈtɛ.ɡi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈta.ɡe/, /ˈtɛ.ɡe/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈta.ɡɨ/ [ˈta.ɣɨ], /ˈtɛ.ɡɨ/ [ˈtɛ.ɣɨ]

### Noun

tag f or m (plural tags)
* tag (type of graffiti)
* an RFID chip, especially one used to unlock electronic door locks, often carried as a key fob
* (computing) tag (a markup instruction)
* (computing) tag (keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information)

#### Derived terms

* tagar

#### Related terms

* hashtag

### Further reading

* “tag”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Sumerian
### Romanization

tag
* Romanization of 𒋳 (tag)

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse tak.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɑːɡ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tag n
* a grip, a hold (of something)
    Tappa inte tagetDon't lose your grip
    Släpp inte taget!Don't let go [Don't release your grip]!
    ta tag i någotgrab something [take grip in something]
    få tag i någon/någotget hold of someone/something
* (figuratively, in "ta tag i (något)") to get down to dealing with (something)
* a stroke (with oars or an oar, a paddle, or the like; in swimming)
    ett tag till med åranone more stroke with the oar
    ta ett årtagtake a stroke with oars (or an oar)
    ta ett paddeltagtake a stroke with a paddle
    ta några simtagtake a few swimming strokes
* a while (limited, often short time period)
    Hon kommer om ett tagShe will be here in a while
    Det kommer ta ett bra tagIt will take a good while
    ett litet taga little while
    Det är inget jag glömmer i första tagetIt's not something I will forget in a hurry [in the first while]
* a manner of doing something (can be thought of as "grips" as a metaphor for how one goes about something)
    en maskin som tål tuffa taga machine that can take a beating ("that can stand tough grips")
    friska tagspunk, vigor ("fresh grips")
    Somliga gillar hårda tagSome like it rough

#### Derived terms

* vara i tagen

#### See also

* grabba

### Verb

tag
* imperative of taga

#### Alternative forms

* ta

### References

* tag in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* tag in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* tag in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* ATG

## Welsh
### Etymology

Back-formation from tagu (“to strangle, to choke”).

### Noun

tag m (plural tagau or tagion)
* choking, suffocation

#### Derived terms

* bleidd-dag (“wolfsbane, monkshood”)
* llindag (“suffocation; snare; dodder; thrush”)
* tagaradr (“restharrow”)
* tagell (“gill; jowl”)
* tagfa (“choking, throttling; bottleneck”)
* taglys (“bindweed”)
* ytag (“black bindweed; buckwheat”)

### Mutation

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

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tag”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

## White Hmong
### Etymology

See tas.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ta˧˩̤/

### Noun

tag
* Alternative form of tas (“day segment”)

### Particle

tag
* Alternative form of tas (“completion particle”)

### Usage notes

More commonly used than tas.

### References

* Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN.