viga

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish viga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːɡə/
• Rhymes: -iːɡə

Noun

viga (plural vigas)

1. (New Mexico) A roughly-made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village
   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses:

     The vigas were partly down and hunters or herdsmen had built fires in the floor.

Anagrams

• GAVI, vagi

Asturian

Noun

viga f (plural vigues)

1. beam

Estonian

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Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vika, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *swiką (“deception”). Cognates include Votic, Ingrian, and Finnish vika (“ailment, disease; fault, error; fault; defect; disability; disorder; bad habit”), Livonian vigā (“error; disease; fault; cause”), Karelian, Livvi, and Veps viga (“defect; error; fault; cause”) and Inari Sami vahe (“mistake; injury; illness”) (from Proto-Samic *vëkē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈviɡ̊ɑ/,

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iɡ̊ɑ
• Hyphenation: vi‧ga

Noun

viga (genitive vea, partitive viga)

1. mistake, error, fault (failure to comply with a rule, norm, standard, fact, etc., deviation from correct performance)
2. flaw, defect, blemish, drawback (being out of order)

   Mis sul viga on? ― What's wrong with you? (literally, “What is your flaw?”)

   1. malaise; disease; injury

      Ärge tehke talle viga! ― Don't hurt him! (literally, “Don't make him any injuries!”)

3. lack, deficiency (something that prevents from being perfect, a disturbing quality, tendency, or phenomenon, a weak or negative aspect)
4. fault, blame; cause, reason

Declension

Synonyms

• (flaw, defect): häire, rike
• (disease): haigus, tõbi, häda
• (lack): nõrkus, puudujääk, puudus
• (fault, blame): süü

Derived terms

Compounds

References

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

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse vega (“to weigh”), from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to carry, move, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰe-, *weǵʰ-.

Verb

viga (third person singular past indicative vigaði, third person plural past indicative vigaðu, supine vigað)

1. to weigh

Conjugation

Italian

Verb

viga

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of vigere

Anagrams

• Gavi, vagì

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) vigā

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vika.

Noun

viga

1. fault

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vika.

Noun

viga

1. flaw
2. defect

Nias

Noun

viga

1. mutated form of figa (“plate”)

Portuguese

Etymology

Uncertain; probably from Latin bīga (“tree-trunk”). Cognate with Spanish viga, Catalan and Occitan biga.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: vi‧ga

Noun

viga f (plural vigas)

1. beam (large piece of timber or iron)

   Synonym: trave

Further reading

• “viga” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain; probably from Latin bīga (“tree-trunk”). Cognate with Portuguese viga, Catalan biga, Occitan biga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiɡa/

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iɡa
• Syllabification: vi‧ga

Noun

viga f (plural vigas)

1. timber, beam, rafter, girder

Descendants

• → English: viga

Further reading

• “viga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology 1

Adjective

viga

1. inflection of vig:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish vīghia, from Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *wīhijaną.

Verb

viga (present viger, preterite vigde, supine vigt, imperative vig)

1. to marry; to unite in wedlock or matrimony
2. to devote something for a specific purpose

   Han har vigt sitt liv åt att hjälpa andra.

   He has devoted his life to helping others.

Conjugation

Related terms

• inviga
• vigsel
• vigvatten
• ovigd

See also

• gifta

Further reading

• viga in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

• giva

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vika.

Noun

viga

1. flaw
2. defect
3. failure, malfunction
4. damage
5. mistake

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “брак, дефект, изъян, неисправность, ошибка, повод, повреждение, порок, упущение”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Volapük

Noun

viga

1. genitive singular of vig