English
Noun
tig
- british tag, the children's game.
Quotations
1916, w:James Joyce|James Joyce, ''w:Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man|Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 43
- One evening when playing tig she had put her hands over his eyes
- long and white and thin and cold and soft.
Irish
Pronunciation
IPA|[tʲigʲ]
Verb form
tig (present of tar)
- come
Old English
Etymology
Common Germanic *tiguz, whence also Old High German zug, Old Norse tigr
Numeral
-tiġ
- -ty
vi:tig
vo:tig
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