tige

Borrowed from French tige (“stem”), from Latin tibia (“shin bone, leg”). Doublet of tibia.

tige (plural tiges)

1. (firearms, historical) A steel pin in early rifles.
2. (botany, archaic) A stem.
   • 1829, Mrs. Lincoln Phelps, Familiar Lectures on Botany, page 50:

     The tige is either simple, as in the White Lily, or branching, as in the Geranium; the branching is the most common form; […]

• gite, gîte

From Proto-Finnic *tikëda. Related to Livonian tig.

tige (genitive tigeda, partitive tigedat, comparative tigedam, superlative kõige tigedam or tigedaim)

1. angry

• “tige”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Inherited from Old French tige, from Latin tībia. Compare the borrowed doublet tibia (“shin”).

• IPA^(key): /tiʒ/

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tige f (plural tiges)

1. (botany) stem (of a plant etc.)
2. sapling
3. shank
4. (dated) ciggie, cig, fag, smoke
   • 2016, Jacques Tardi, Dominique Grange, Le dernier assaut, Bruxelles, Paris: Casterman, →ISBN, page 11:

     On se roule une tige à la sortie du boyau, à la croix du Jesus.

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• coton-tige (“cotton swab”)

• → Catalan: tija

• “tige”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• gîte

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲɪɟɪ/

tige

1. (Ulster, parts of Munster) alternative form of taga, present subjunctive analytic of tar

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈtiɡə/ [ˈt̪i.ɡə]
• Rhymes: -iɡə
• Hyphenation: ti‧ge

tige

1. (Kuala Lumpur) pronunciation spelling of tiga

From Old English tyge, from Proto-West Germanic *tugi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtij(ə)/

tige (plural tiges)

1. (Early Middle English, hapax legomenon) draught, drink

• Yola: ty

• “tige, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.je/

tīġe

1. inflection of tīġan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

• taige

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲiɣʲe/

tige n

1. inflection of tech:
   1. genitive singular
   2. genitive dual
   3. nominative/vocative/accusative and genitive plural

tige

1. (archaic) present subjunctive of tiga

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• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːɣə/

tige

1. much, many

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• “tige”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

tige

1. much, very

   Tige tank! ― Thank you very much!

• “tige”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011