# tig
## Translingual
### Symbol

tig
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Tigre.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Tigre terms

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɪɡ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪɡ

### Etymology 1

Dialectal variant of tick, from Middle English ticken, tiken. More at tick.

#### Verb

tig (third-person singular simple present tigs, present participle tigging, simple past and past participle tigged)
* (dialectal) To touch lightly or playfully; to trifle, dally.

#### Noun

tig (plural tigs)
* (dialectal) A light touch; a tap or pat.
* (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) The children's game of tag.
** 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 36:One evening when playing tig she had put her hands over his eyes: long and white and thin and cold and soft.

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* tyg

#### Noun

tig (plural tigs)
* (historical) A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.

### See also

* tig bitties / tig ol' bitties (etymologyically unrelated)

### Anagrams

* GTi, IGT, git

## Cebuano
### Etymology

From tig-.

### Noun

tig
* (often humorous, derogatory) a gofer; a worker who runs errands

## Dutch
### Etymology

From the suffix -tig (“-ty”) used to form multiples of ten, after German zig.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɪx/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪx

### Determiner

tig
* (informal) tens, dozens, lots, umpteen
    Ik kan wel tig redenen bedenken waarom dit fout is!I can think of dozens of reasons why this is wrong!

#### Derived terms

* tigste

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French tigre (“tiger”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tiɡ/

### Noun

tig
* tiger

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʲɪɟ/

### Etymology 1

From Old Irish ·ticc, prototonic form of do·icc (“comes”).

#### Verb

tig
* present indicative analytic of tar
    Tig sé abhaile ar a sé a chloch.He comes home at six o’clock.

##### Usage notes

The form tig is especially common in tar le (“be able”).

### Etymology 2

Variant form of tuig.

#### Verb

tig (present analytic tigeann, future analytic tigfidh, verbal noun tiscint, past participle tigthe)
* Cois Fharraige form of tuig (“to understand”)

##### Conjugation

| verbal noun | tiscint | tiscint | tiscint | tiscint | tiscint | tiscint | tiscint | tiscint |
| past participle | tigthe | tigthe | tigthe | tigthe | tigthe | tigthe | tigthe | tigthe |
| tense | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural | relative | autonomous |
| tense | first | second | third | first | second | third | relative | autonomous |
| indicative |||||||||
| present | tigim | tigeann tú; tigir$^†$ | tigeann sé, sí | tigimid | tigeann sibh | tigeann siad; tigid$^†$ | a thigeann; a thigeas / a dtigeann* | tigtear |
| past | thig mé; thigeas | thig tú; thigis | thig sé, sí | thigeamar; thig muid | thig sibh; thigeabhair | thig siad; thigeadar | a thig / ar thig* | tigeadh |
| past habitual | thiginn / dtiginn‡‡ | thigteá / dtigteá‡‡ | thigeadh sé, sí / dtigeadh sé, sí‡‡ | thigimis; thigeadh muid / dtigimis‡‡; dtigeadh muid‡‡ | thigeadh sibh / dtigeadh sibh‡‡ | thigidís; thigeadh siad / dtigidís‡‡; dtigeadh siad‡‡ | a thigeadh / a dtigeadh* | thigtí / dtigtí‡‡ |
| future | tigfidh mé; tigfead | tigfidh tú; tigfir$^†$ | tigfidh sé, sí | tigfimid; tigfidh muid | tigfidh sibh | tigfidh siad; tigfid$^†$ | a thigfidh; a thigfeas / a dtigfidh* | tigfear |
| conditional | thigfinn / dtigfinn‡‡ | thigfeá / dtigfeá‡‡ | thigfeadh sé, sí / dtigfeadh sé, sí‡‡ | thigfimis; thigfeadh muid / dtigfimis‡‡; dtigfeadh muid‡‡ | thigfeadh sibh / dtigfeadh sibh‡‡ | thigfidís; thigfeadh siad / dtigfidís‡‡; dtigfeadh siad‡‡ | a thigfeadh / a dtigfeadh* | thigfí / dtigfí‡‡ |
| subjunctive |||||||||
| present | go dtige mé; go dtigead$^†$ | go dtige tú; go dtigir$^†$ | go dtige sé, sí | go dtigimid; go dtige muid | go dtige sibh | go dtige siad; go dtigid$^†$ | — | go dtigtear |
| past | dá dtiginn | dá dtigteá | dá dtigeadh sé, sí | dá dtigimis; dá dtigeadh muid | dá dtigeadh sibh | dá dtigidís; dá dtigeadh siad | — | dá dtigtí |
| imperative |||||||||
| – | tigim | tig | tigeadh sé, sí | tigimis | tigigí; tigidh$^†$ | tigidís | — | tigtear |
* indirect relative † archaic or dialect form ‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

### Etymology 3

Pronunciation spelling based on the fact that word-final -igh and -ig are pronounced the same in Munster.

#### Noun

tig m (genitive singular tí, nominative plural tithe)
* Munster spelling of tigh (“house”)

##### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
tig
tithe
vocative
a thig
a thithe
genitive
tí
tithe
dative
tig
tithe
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an tig
na tithe
genitive
an tí
na dtithe
dative
leis an tig don tig
leis na tithe :

### Mutation

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

### References

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tig”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Livonian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tiki. Related to Estonian tige.

### Adjective

tig
* angry

## Old English
### Noun

tīg f
* Alternative form of tēag

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʲiɣʲ/

### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Alternative forms

* taig

#### Noun

tig n
* dative singular of tech

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

tig
* genitive singular masculine/neuter of tiug

### Mutation

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

## Scottish Gaelic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d̥ʲikʲ/, /d̥ʲʒik/ (as if spelled dig)

### Verb

tig
* future of thig

#### Usage notes

* This is the dependent form, the basic form being thig.

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -iːɡ

### Verb

tig
* imperative of tiga

## White Hmong
### Etymology

From Vietnamese đi ("to go", "to walk), borrowed with a more restrictive definition.

### Verb

tig
* (of vehicles) to turn
* to revolve; to rotate