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.

• gite, gîte

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

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

1. angry

Declension of tige (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		tige	tigedad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	tigeda
genitive			tigedate
partitive		tigedat	tigedaid
illative		tigedasse	tigedatesse tigedaisse
inessive		tigedas	tigedates tigedais
elative		tigedast	tigedatest tigedaist
allative		tigedale	tigedatele tigedaile
adessive		tigedal	tigedatel tigedail
ablative		tigedalt	tigedatelt tigedailt
translative		tigedaks	tigedateks tigedaiks
terminative		tigedani	tigedateni
essive		tigedana	tigedatena
abessive		tigedata	tigedateta
comitative		tigedaga	tigedatega

• “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

• 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, the present subjunctive analytic of tar.

tige

1. (Johor-Riau) three, 3

• 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

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• “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