viga

Borrowed from Spanish viga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːɡə/

viga (plural vigas)

1. 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.

• GAVI, vagi

viga f (plural vigues)

1. beam

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).

• IPA^(key): /ˈviɡ̊ɑ/, [ˈviɡ̊ɑ]

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• Rhymes: -iɡ̊ɑ
• Hyphenation: vi‧ga

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

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

• viga in Sõnaveeb
• viga in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

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

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

1. to weigh

viga

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of vigere

• Gavi, vagì

• (Courland) vigā

From Proto-Finnic *vika.

viga

1. fault

From Proto-Finnic *vika.

viga

1. flaw
2. defect

viga

1. mutated form of figa (“plate”)

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

• Hyphenation: vi‧ga

viga f (plural vigas)

1. beam (large piece of timber or iron)

   Synonym: trave

• “viga” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiɡa/ [ˈbi.ɣ̞a]

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• Rhymes: -iɡa
• Syllabification: vi‧ga

viga f (plural vigas)

1. timber, beam, rafter, girder

• → English: viga

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

viga

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of vig.

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

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.

• inviga
• vigsel
• vigvatten
• ovigd

• gifta

• viga in Svensk ordbok.

• giva

From Proto-Finnic *vika.

viga

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

• 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

viga

1. genitive singular of vig