sig

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Clipping of signature.

Noun[edit]

sig (plural sigs)

  2. (Internet, informal) A signature, especially one on emails or newsgroup postings.
    • 1995, Vince Emery, How to grow your business on the Internet:
      Your sig should ideally be four or five lines long, six or seven at the maximum. Since it will be repeated on hundreds of messages, a long signature wastes bandwidth and is therefore rude.
    • 2004, Brad Hill, Building Your Business with Google For Dummies, page 48:
      Posting good content is the best way to get people clicking your sig link.
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Clipping of signify (“to boast, brag, insult”).[1]

Verb[edit]

sig (third-person singular simple present sigs, present participle sigging, simple past and past participle sigged)

  2. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To good-naturedly make fun of someone; to signify.
    Synonyms: banter, (AAVE) jone
See also[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Clipping of sigma.

Noun[edit]

sig (plural sigs)

  2. (university slang) Sigma (in the names of Greek-letter organizations).
    Sig Chi; Kappa Sig; Sig Nu
    • 2014 April 17, Allie Jones, “After Years of Bad Press, the Great Fraternity Crackdown Is Here”, in The Atlantic‎[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-25:
      Outright banning fraternities, however, is a tough move for a university president to make. Greek alums tend to be big donors. [Phil] Hanlon has shied away from making his reform all Greek life, no doubt to avoid the ire of deep-pocketed former Sig Chis.
    • 2014 May 29, Prachi Gupta, “Your fraternity email chain will come back to haunt you”, in Salon.com‎[2], archived from the original on 2023-12-13:
      Here are 6 of the most cartoonishly sexist, aggressive, and straight-up nuts fraternity and sorority email chains ever released to the public. Let them be a warning to young Kappa Sigs everywhere.
    • 2022 October 6, Eliza Josephson, “POV: You're dancing at a Yale Frat, or not”, in Yale Daily News‎[3], archived from the original on 2022-10-13:
      My time at Sig Nu was quite brief, unfortunately, so I'll do my best with the data I gathered.
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 4[edit]

From Middle English sige. Cognate with Middle Dutch seic, seike, Middle Low German seyche. Related also to sink (“to fall”).

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

sig (uncountable)

  2. (UK, dialectal, dated) Urine.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jonathon Green (2024) “sig v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Further reading[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Danish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse sik, from Proto-Germanic *sik.

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

sig

  1. (reflexive) third-person pronoun
    Hunden slikkede sig ren.
    The dog licked itself clean.
Usage notes[edit]

For all other persons (both singular and plural) the personal accusative pronoun is used.

See also[edit]
Danish personal pronouns
Number Person Type Nominative Oblique Possessive
common neuter plural
Singular First – jeg mig min mit mine
Second modern / informal du dig din dit dine
formal De Dem Deres
Third masculine (person) han ham hans
feminine (person) hun hende hendes
common(noun) den dens
neuter(noun) det dets
reflexive – sig sin sit sine
Plural First modern vi os vores
archaic / formal vor vort vore
Second – I jer jeres
Third – de dem deres
reflexive – sig

Etymology 2[edit]

See sige.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

sig

  1. imperative of sige

Faroese[edit]

Verb[edit]

sig

  1. imperative singular of siga

Icelandic[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

sig n (genitive singular sigs, nominative plural sig)

  1. subsidence, (a sinking of something to a lower level)
  2. prolapse, a moving out of place, especially a protrusion of an internal organ
Declension[edit]
declension of sig
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative sig sigið sig sigin
accusative sig sigið sig sigin
dative sigi siginu sigum sigunum
genitive sigs sigsins siga siganna
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse sik, from Proto-Germanic *sik.

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

sig

  1. (reflexive) accusative third person reflexive pronoun meaning oneself (and also depending on context himself, herself, itself and themselves)
    Hann drap sig.
    He killed himself.
    Hún drap sig.
    She killed herself.
Declension[edit]
declension of sig
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative - - - -
accusative sig, sik† sig, sik† sig, sik† sig, sik†
dative sér sér sér sér
genitive sín sín sín sín
Derived terms[edit]
terms derived from the accusative form, or sig
terms derived from the dative form, or sér
terms derived from the genitive form, or sín

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Verb[edit]

sig

  1. inflection of siga:
    1. present
    2. imperative

Old English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

sīġ

  1. Alternative form of sīe

Sumerian[edit]

Romanization[edit]

sig

  1. Romanization of 𒋝 (sig)

Swedish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • sej (strongly colloquial)

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse sik, from Proto-Germanic *sek, from Proto-Indo-European *se.

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

sig

  1. reflexive case of han, hon, den, det, de or man; compare himself, herself, itself, themselves, oneself
    Antagligen skulle han vilja lära sig jonglera.
    Presumably he would like to learn how to juggle.
    Hon lärde sig själv.
    She taught herself.
    Skar de sig på knivarna?
    Did they cut themselves on the knives?

Declension[edit]

Swedish personal pronouns
Number Person Type Nominative Oblique Possessive
common neuter plural
singular first — jag mig, mej3 min mitt mina
second — du dig, dej3 din ditt dina
third masculine (person) han honom, han2, en5 hans
feminine (person) hon henne, na5 hennes
gender-neutral (person)1 hen hen, henom7 hens
common (noun) den den dess
neuter (noun) det det dess
indefinite man or en4 en ens
reflexive — sig, sej3 sin sitt sina
plural first — vi oss vår, våran2 vårt, vårat2 våra
second — ni er er, eran2, ers6 ert, erat2 era
archaic I eder eder, eders6 edert edra
third — de, dom3 dem, dom3 deras
reflexive — sig, sej3 sin sitt sina
1Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, and has gained widespread acceptance today.
2Informal
4Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.
5Informal, somewhat dialectal
6Formal address
7Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council

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Western Apache[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Athabaskan *-x̯ɑ̓t. Cognates include Navajo sid, Mescalero sįh.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

sig

  1. scar

Usage notes[edit]

The form sig in the White Mountain variety; sid occurs in White Mountain and Dilzhe’eh (Tonto); shig occurs in Cibecue; shid occurs in Dilzhe’eh and San Carlos varieties;

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