pigg

== English == === Alternative forms === pig, pyg === Etymology === Uncertain. Perhaps from pig (“swine”), due to the shape. Compare also Middle English pig (“a container for wine; the hide of a pig used as a wineskin”), from pigge (“pig”). More at pig. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɪɡ/ Homophone: pig === Noun === pigg (plural piggs) (Northern England, Scotland) A piggin (“an earthenware vessel, jar, crock”). == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology === From Old Norse pík f. === Noun === pigg m (definite singular piggen, indefinite plural pigger, definite plural piggene) a spike a stud (e.g. on a studded tyre) a spine or quill (on an animal) a barb (on barbed wire) ==== Derived terms ==== piggdekk piggrokke piggsvin piggtråd === References === “pigg” in The Bokmål Dictionary. == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Etymology === From Old Norse pík f. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɪɡː/ === Noun === pigg m (definite singular piggen, indefinite plural piggar, definite plural piggane) a spike a stud (e.g. on a studded tyre) a spine or quill (on an animal) a barb (on barbed wire) ==== Derived terms ==== piggdekk piggsvin piggtråd === References === “pigg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. == Swedish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɪɡː/ Rhymes: -ɪɡ === Etymology 1 === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) ==== Adjective ==== pigg (comparative piggare, superlative piggast) alert, fresh (often after sleeping, as opposed to drowsy) healthy lively, active spry (only used predicatively, with på) up for, keen on (wanting) ===== Usage notes ===== The contemporary intuition of native speakers is that the basic meaning of pigg is alert in the sense of not drowsy, lethargic, or the like. Other senses are intuitively by idiomatic implication – calling old people and pups "alert" in that sense instead of "spry" or "lively," etc. ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== See also ===== alert vaken === Etymology 2 === From Old Swedish pigger, perhaps from Old Norse píkr (“nail, spike”). Cognate with Danish pig. Related also to Swedish pik and Old Norse pík. ==== Noun ==== pigg c a (small) spike a spine, a thorn, a quill Synonym: (more common) tagg ===== Usage notes ===== Sometimes used of pins on power plugs, pin headers, and the like, though stift is considered more proper. Also sometimes used of for example small teeth (tänder) on gears, "pins" on brushes (which might be called for example metallborst (metal bristles) instead), and studs on Lego bricks (officially pluppar). Might sometimes be a catchall when unable to think of a better term for a small spike or pin. ===== Declension ===== ===== See also ===== pinne === References === “pigg”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “pigg”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “pigg”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)