aig

Abbreviation of English or Spanish Antigua.

aig

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Antigua and Barbuda Creole English.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Antigua and Barbuda Creole English terms

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.

aig

1. water

From Proto-Finnic *hauki, from Slavic. Akin to Finnish hauki.

aig

1. pike (fish of the genus Esox)

From Proto-Finnic *aika. Cognate with Finnish aika.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯ɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯ɡ
• Hyphenation: aig

aig

1. time

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• M. Pahomov (2022) Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ‎, Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN, page 13

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɣʲ/

From Proto-Celtic *yegis.

aig f (genitive ega)

1. ice

• Scottish Gaelic: eigh

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

·aig

1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of aigid

aig

1. second-person singular imperative of aigid

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Compare agg.

• IPA^(key): /eɡ/

aig (third-person singular simple present aigs, present participle aigan, simple past aiged, past participle aiged)

1. (Caithness) to work eagerly

• “aig, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

From Middle Irish oc, from Old Irish oc. Cognates include Irish ag and Manx ec.

• IPA^(key): /ɛkʲ/
• (Lewis, South Uist) IPA^(key): /akʲ/
• (Barra) IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: aig

aig (+ dative, no mutation)

1. at, by, near, closeby

   Tha am balach na laighe aig an taigh. ― The boy is lying at the house.

   A bheil iad aig an taigh? ― Are they at home?

2. in somebody's possession

   Bha dithis mhac aig an duine. ― The man had two sons.

   Tha lèine gheal agam, ach tha lèine dhubh agad. ― I have a white shirt, but you have a black shirt.

3. on account of

   aig meud aigheir ― on account of his excessive joy

4. (idiomatic) In conjunction with the preposition ri: to have to do something

   Synonyms: feum, feud

   tha agad ri èideadh a thaghadh ― you have to choose an outfit

5. (idiomatic) In conjunction with the preposition air or mu, chiefly in the negative: to like something

   chan eil agam air ― I dislike him

6. Used partitively to refer to a particular group of people: "of us", "of them" etc.

   an dithis agaibh ― both of you

   an triùir aca ― the three of them

• Scottish Gaelic doesn't have a verb equivalent to English have: possession is expressed using the preposition aig.

  Tha càr ùr aig an teaghlach. ― The family has a new car. (literally, “A new car is at the family.”)

• The word aig and its derivates are also often used to express possession attributively instead of possessive pronouns:

  an taigh agam ― my house (literally, “the house at me”)

• ag, a'

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “aig”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan ‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC

From Proto-Finnic *aika.

aig

1. time
2. age, era
3. (grammar) tense

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “время, эпоха”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ ‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From Proto-Finnic *aika.

aig (genitive ao, partitive aigo)

1. time
2. (grammar) tense

• ollõvaig
• minnevaig