Inherited fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*wahiʀ.

aig

1. water

FromProto-Finnic*hauki, fromSlavic. Akin toFinnishhauki.

aig

1. pike(fish of the genusEsox)

FromProto-Finnic*aika. Cognate withFinnishaika.

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

aig

1. time

This noun needs aninflection-table template.

• M. Pahomov (2022)Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ‎^[1], Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr,→ISBN, page13

• IPA^(key):/ˈaɣʲ/

FromProto-Celtic*yegis.

aig f (genitiveega)

1. ice

• Scottish Gaelic:eigh

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

·aig

1. third-personsingularpresentindicativeconjunct ofaigid

aig

1. second-personsingularimperative ofaigid

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

Compareagg.

• IPA^(key):/eɡ/

aig (third-person singular simple presentaigs,present participleaigan,simple pastaiged,past participleaiged)

1. (Caithness) to workeagerly

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

FromMiddle Irishoc,^[1] fromOld Irishoc. Cognates includeIrishag andManxec.

• IPA^(key):/ɛkʲ/
• (Lewis,South Uist)IPA^(key):/akʲ/^[2][3]
• (Barra)IPA^(key):[ækʲ]^[4]
• Hyphenation:aig

aig (+ dative,no mutation)

1. at,by,near,closeby

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

   A bheil iadaig an taigh? ―Are they at home?

2. in somebody'spossession

   Bha dithis mhacaig an duine. ―The manhad two sons.

   Tha lèine ghealagam, ach tha lèine dhubhagad. ―I have a white shirt, butyou have a black shirt.

3. onaccount of

   aig meud aigheir ―on account of his excessive joy

4. (idiomatic)In conjunction with the prepositionri: tohave to do something

   Synonyms:feum,feud

   thaagad ri èideadh a thaghadh ―youhave to choose an outfit

5. (idiomatic)In conjunction with the prepositionair ormu, chiefly in the negative: tolike something

   chan eilagam air ―I dislike him

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

   andithisagaibh ―both of you

   antriùiraca ―the three of them

• Scottish Gaelic doesn't have a verb equivalent to Englishhave: possession is expressed using the prepositionaig.

  Tha càr ùraig an teaghlach. ―The family has a new car. (literally, “A new car isat the family.”)

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

  an taighagam ―my house (literally, “the houseat me”)

• ag,a'

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “aig”, inFaclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited,→ISBN
• MacLennan, Malcolm (1925)A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant,→OCLC

FromProto-Finnic*aika.

aig

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

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “время,эпоха”, inUz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

FromProto-Finnic*aika.

aig (genitiveao,partitiveaigo)

1. time
2. (grammar)tense

• ollõvaig
• minnevaig