different between liger vs lige

English

Etymology

Blend of lion +? tiger

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?la???/
• Rhymes: -a???(r)

Noun

liger (plural ligers)

1. An animal born to a male lion and a tigress.

Hyponyms

• ligress

Translations

See also

• tigon

References

• liger at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Rigel, e-girl, egirl, elrig, girle

Latin

Verb

liger

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lig?

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *levi?rius, from Classical Latin levis (“light; not heavy”). Compare French léger.

Adjective

liger m (feminine singular ligera, masculine plural ligers, feminine plural ligeras)

1. (Puter, Vallader) light (of weight)
2. (Puter, Vallader) easy

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) lev
• (Sutsilvan) leav
• (Vallader) leiv

Etymology 2

From Latin leg?, legere.

Verb

liger

1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) to read

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Vallader) leger
• (Puter) ler

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ligero.

Adjective

liger

1. light (not heavy)
2. swift, quick-acting (of a person)

Adverb

liger

1. quick

References

• Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)?^[2] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 249

English

Verb

lige (third-person singular simple present liges, present participle liging, simple past and past participle liged)

1. (obsolete) To lie; to tell lies.

Anagrams

• Egli, Geil, Gile, Lieg, glei

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?li??], [?li?i]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse líki, from Proto-Germanic *gal?kô, cognate with Old English ?el?ca (English like) and Old High German gil?hho (German seinesgleichen). Definite form of the adjective *gal?kaz (“same, like”)

Noun

lige (uninflected)

1. like, match

Etymology 2

Originally the definite form of lig.

Adjective

lige (uninflected)

1. straight, not bent
2. equal
3. (mathematics, of an integer) even (being of the form ${\displaystyle 2n}$, where ${\displaystyle n}$ is an integer)
4. (mathematics, of a function) even (such that ${\displaystyle f(x)=f(-x)}$)

Coordinate terms

• ulige

Etymology 3

From Old Norse líka, from Proto-Germanic *gal?kê, cognate with English like, German gleich. Adverb from the adjective Proto-Germanic *gal?kaz (“same, like”), see lig.

Adverb

lige

1. just, recently
2. just, merely, simply
3. just, exactly

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?/

Adjective

lige (plural liges)

1. liege

Further reading

• “lige” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?????]

Verb

lige

1. present subjunctive analytic of lig

Old French

Etymology

Disputed; thought to be of Germanic origin. See English liege.

Noun

lige m (oblique plural liges, nominative singular liges, nominative plural lige)

1. liege; liegeman; vassal

Descendants

• ? English: liege

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??i??e/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *legyom, from Proto-Indo-European *leg?- (“to lie (down)”).

Noun

lige n

1. verbal noun of laigid
2. lying down, reclining, sleeping
   • c. 815-840, published in "The Monastery of Tallaght", in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1911-1912, Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Edward J. Gwynn and Walter J. Purton, vol. 29, pp. 115–179, paragraph 85,

3. bed, couch
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55^c19

4. (figuratively) grave

Inflection

Synonyms

• (bed): dérgud, imdae, lepaid, sceng

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lige f

1. verbal noun of ligid
2. licking

Inflection

Mutation

Turkish

Noun

lige

1. dative singular of lig