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語源

From Wigan (“town in Greater Manchester”).

名詞

wigan (countable and uncountable, plural wigans)

1. A canvas-like cotton fabric, often coated with latex rubber, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers, dresses, etc.
   • 1932, Transactions of the Institution of the Rubber Industry, volume 8, page 313:

     It was really no easy matter to build up two or three plies of double warp Wigan with a thin covering of rubber to the accurate gauge that the printer required.

アナグラム

• Awngi, awing

発音

• IPA: /ˈwiː.ɡɑn/, [ˈwiː.ɣɑn]
• 韻: -iː.ɡɑn

動詞

wīgan

1. to fight, make war, do battle

Conjugation

派生語

• oferwīgan (“to overcome in battle, conquer”)
• wīgend (“soldier, warrior”)

関連する語

• wīġ (“fight, battle, war, strife”)
• wiga (“a fighter, warrior; a man ennobled by his doggedness”)
• wigian (“to fight”)

語源 2

発音

• IPA: /ˈwi.ɡɑn/, [ˈwi.ɣɑn]
• 韻: -i.ɡɑn

名詞

wigan m

1. inflection of wiga:
   1. accusative/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “wīgan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.