stig

Believed to have originated from the eponymous character in the book Stig of the Dump (Clive King, Puffin, 1963, →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /stɪɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪɡ

stig (plural stigs)

1. (UK, slang, derogatory) Someone from a poor background, with poor dress sense.

See chav.

• GTis, ISTG, gist, gits, tigs

• IPA^(key): /ˈstiːj/

stig n (genitive singular stigs, plural stig)

1. pace
2. stair, rung
3. (dance) step
4. niveau, level
5. degree (Celsius etc.)
6. (sports) score

• (pace): fet, fótafet, gongd
• (dancing step): stev, fótastig

• IPA^(key): /stɪːɣ/
• Rhymes: -ɪːɣ

stig n (genitive singular stigs, nominative plural stig)

1. level
2. degree
3. stage
4. point (unit of scoring in a game or competition)
5. (baseball, cricket) run

• (level): staða
• (degree): gráða
• (stage): áfangi

• á þessu stigi, á þessu stigi málsins
• á háu stigi
• öryggisstig (security level)

stig

1. imperative of stige

From Old Norse stígr.

stig m (definite singular stigen, indefinite plural stigar, definite plural stigane)

1. alternative form of sti

stig

1. present tense of stige
2. imperative of stige

stìg n (definite singular stìget, indefinite plural stìg, definite plural stìgi)

1. (pre-1917) alternative form of steg

• “stig” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *stīgu, from Proto-Germanic *stīgō, from *stīganą (“climb”) ( > Old English stīgan). Cognate with Middle Dutch stige, Old High German stiga. A masculine Germanic variant *stīgaz is indicated by Old High German stic (German Steig), Old Norse stígr (Swedish stig).

• IPA^(key): /stiːɡ/, [stiːɣ]

stīg f (nominative plural stīga or stīge)

1. path (especially steep or narrow)

• Middle English: stiȝhe, styȝe, stighe, stieghe, stie, stye, sty

From Proto-Germanic *stiją. Cognate with Old Norse stí (Danish sti).

• IPA^(key): /stij/

stiġ n

1. hall, building, sty

• stigweard (“steward”)

• Middle English: sty
  • English: sty

Related to stíga.

stig n

1. step, pace
2. step (of a ladder)
3. (plural only) degree, rank

• Icelandic: stig
• Faroese: stig
• Norwegian Nynorsk: steg
• Norwegian Bokmål: steg

• “stig”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• IPA^(key): /stiːɡ/

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• Rhymes: -iːɡ

From Old Swedish stīgher, from Old Norse stígr, from Proto-Germanic *stīgu- or Proto-Germanic *stīgi-. Cognate with Danish sti and German Steig. Related to Swedish stiga. See also Old English stig.

stig c

1. path, trail

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

stig

1. imperative of stiga.

• tigs