different between teg vs tegg

English

Etymology

First used to contemptuously refer to a woman, then later applied to a ewe in her second year. Possibly borrowed from Swedish tacka (“ewe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

teg (plural tegs)

1. (Britain, dialect, dated) a sheep (originally a ewe) that is one to two years old

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2. (Britain, dialect, dated) a doe in its second year

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• GTE, Get, TGE, get

Cornish

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Numeral

teg

1. Hard mutation of deg.
2. Mixed mutation of deg.

Etymology 2

From the same source as Welsh teg (“fair, pretty”)

Adjective

teg

1. pretty, attractive

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: te

Pronoun

teg sg

1. accusative singular of tú (“you”)

Declension

Synonyms

• tjeg (dialectal)

Derived terms

• eg elski teg (“I love you”)

Hupdë

Noun

teg

1. tree

References

• 1979, Barbara J. Moore, Gail L. Franklin, Mary L. Daniel (translator), Breves notícias da língua maku-hupda, Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 11.

Livonian

Pronoun

teg

1. nominative plural of sin?

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

tèg

1. (non-standard since 1938) imperative of tegja

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?/

Noun

teg n (genitive tige or taige, nominative plural tige)

1. Alternative form of tech

Mutation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *t?g?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tê??/

Noun

t?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. weight (weightlifting)
2. weight (block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object)

Declension

Synonyms

• (Croatia) úteg

Slavomolisano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tê??/

Noun

teg m

1. work, employment
   • 2010, Rino John Gliosca, “Bonifacio en Amérique”:

Declension

References

• Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te??/
• Rhymes: -e??

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish tegher, from Old Norse teigr.

Noun

teg c

1. a small farm field, a part of a larger field

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

teg

1. past tense of tiga.

Anagrams

• get

Welsh

Etymology

Cognate with Cornish teg; further etymology unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te??/

Adjective

teg (feminine singular teg, plural teg, equative teced, comparative tecach, superlative tecaf)

1. fair (pretty, attractive)
2. fair, just
3. impartial, unbiased

   Antonym: annheg

Derived terms

• chwarae teg

Mutation

References

English

Etymology

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Noun

tegg (plural teggs)

1. A sheep in its second year or before its first shearing.
2. The wool from such a sheep.

   • It would prove much to the advantage of those who keep long woolled sheep if they suffered the lambs of their flock to retain their fleeces until the next year's shearing, as they would then produce a class of wool known by the name of tegg or hogget wool

References

• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (2000, updated in 2009, published by the Houghton Mifflin Company)