wig
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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Clipping of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque. The meaning of "to reprimand" perhaps came from this being something a bigwig would do or perhaps from the expressions to flip one's wig, wigs on the green, or dash my wig!
wig (plural wigs)
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wig (third-person singular simple present wigs, present participle wigging, simple past and past participle wigged)
wig
wig (plural wîe)
From Middle Dutch wegghe, from Old Dutch *weggi, from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.
wig f (plural wiggen, diminutive wiggetje n)
wig
From Proto-West Germanic *wīg.
wīġ n
Variant of wēoh.
wīġ m
From Proto-West Germanic *wīg, from Proto-Germanic *wīgą, from Proto-Indo-European *weyk-.
wīg n
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | wīg | wīg |
accusative | wīg | wīg |
genitive | wīges | wīgō |
dative | wīge | wīgun |
instrumental | — | — |
From Proto-West Germanic *wigi, from Proto-Germanic *wigją, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to carry; move; transport; ride”).
wig n
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | wig | wig |
accusative | wig | wig |
genitive | wiggies | wiggiō |
dative | wiggie | wiggium |
instrumental | — | — |
wig m or f (plural wigiau or wigs, not mutable)
H-prothesis does not affect this word as the ⟨w⟩ here represents the semivowel /w/ rather than a vowel sound.
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