thig

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See also: þig

English

Etymology

From Middle English thiggen, from Old English þiċġan (“to take, receive, accept; ingest; eat or drink, consume, partake of”), from Proto-Germanic *þigjaną (“to accept, receive, beg”), from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to receive”).

Cognate with Middle High German digen (“to beg, implore, beseech”), German digen (“to beg, beseech, take, get”), Swedish tigga (“to beg, mooch”), Icelandic þiggja (“to get, receive, accept”).

Pronunciation

Verb

thig (third-person singular simple present thigs, present participle thigging, simple past and past participle thigged)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To beseech; supplicate; implore.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To solicit, usually by begging; ask as alms; beg.
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To make supplication.
  4. (obsolete, intransitive) To profit by or live on the gifts of others.
  5. (obsolete, intransitive) To take alms.
  6. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To crave; seek (a favour).

Derived terms

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

thig

  1. Lenited form of tig.

Verb

thig

  1. Cois Fharraige form of thuig

Verb

thig

  1. (nonstandard) analytic present indicative of tar

Further reading

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

thig

  1. Lenited form of tig.

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
tig thig tig
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ·ticc, prototonic form of do·icc (“comes”).

Pronunciation

Verb

thig (past thàinig, future thig, verbal noun tighinn, past participle tigte)

  1. come
    Thiginn a steach a rithist ged a chuirteadh a mach mi.
    I would come in again though I were put out.

Usage notes

Conjugation

Participles
Tense \ Voice Active Passive
Present a' tighinn --
Past thàinig --
Future thig --
Conditional thigeadh --

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of tig
radical lenition
tig thig

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “thig”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “thig” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
  • “thig” in R. A. Armstrong, A Gaelic Dictionary, in Two Parts, London, 1825, →OCLC, page 672.
  • “thig”, in LearnGaelic - Dictionary‎, 2021
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