English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĭg, IPA^(key): /sɪɡ/
• Homophone: cig

Noun

sig ‎(plural sigs)

1. (informal) A signature, usually when used as a digital signature on emails.
   • 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

Etymology 2

Related to sink ‎(“to fall”).

Noun

sig ‎(uncountable)

1. (Britain, dialectal, dated) Urine.

Anagrams

• GIS, GIs, gis, Igs

Danish

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saj/, [sɑj]
• Rhymes: -aj

Pronoun

sig

1. (reflexive) third-person pronoun

Usage notes

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

See also

Etymology 2

See sige.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siː/, [siːˀ]

Verb

sig

1. imperative of sige

Faroese

Verb

sig

1. imperative singular form of siga

Conjugation

Greenlandic

Affix

sig

1. used to express something which is far in a certain direction

   satsippoq

   He is far out towards the west.

Related terms

• rpasig

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪːɣ/
• Rhymes: -ɪːɣ

Etymology 1

Noun

sig n ‎(genitive singular sigs, no plural)

1. subsidence, (a sinking of something to a lower level)
2. prolapse, a moving out of place, especially a protrusion of an internal organ ^syn.

Derived terms

• jarðsig
• sig í bjarg (rappeling down a cliff face)

See also

• síga

Synonyms

• (prolapse): ^def. framfall

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• sik (obsolete)

Pronoun

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

Derived terms

Lojban

Rafsi

sig

1. rafsi of sigja.

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛj/
• Homophones: sej, säg
• Rhymes: -ɛj

Alternative forms

• sej (strongly colloquial)

Pronoun

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.

   He would probably 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

See also

• sig själv sg
• sig själva pl

Western Apache

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɪ̀k]

Etymology

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

Noun

sig

1. scar

Usage notes

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;