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語源 1

Dialectal variant of tick, from 中期英語 ticken, tiken. More at tick.

動詞

tig (third-person singular simple present tigs, present participle tigging, simple past and past participle tigged)

1. (dialectal) To touch lightly or playfully; to trifle, dally.

名詞

tig (plural tigs)

1. (dialectal) A light touch; a tap or pat.
2. (England apart from the south, 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.

語源 2

別の表記

• tyg

名詞

tig (plural tigs)

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

参考

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

アナグラム

• GTi, IGT, TGI, git

名詞

tīg f

1. alternative form of tēag

発音

• IPA: /tij/

接尾辞

-tiġ

1. -ty (used to form numerals denoting multiples of ten)

   twēntiġ ― twenty

   hundtēontiġ ― one hundred

   hundtwelftiġ ― one hundred and twenty

派生語

派生した語

• Middle English: -ty, -te, -ti, -tie, -tiȝ
  • English: -ty
  • Scots: -ty