![]() ![]() ![]() This page was last edited on 3 October 2023, at 08:03.Pronunciation ĭig ( third-person singular simple present digs, present participle digging, simple past and past participle dug) Others do not propose a distinct etymology, instead considering this a semantic shift of the existing English term (compare dig in/dig into). It has also been suggested that it is from Irish dtuig. Russian: раско́пки (ru) f pl ( raskópki )įrom African American Vernacular English due to lack of writing of slave speech, etymology is difficult to trace, but it has been suggested that it is from Wolof dëgg, dëgga ( “ to understand, to appreciate ” ).German: Grabung (de) f, Ausgrabung (de) f.Spanish: excavar (es), ahondar (es), cavar (es).Polish: kopać (pl) impf, wykopywać (pl) impf, ryć (pl) impf.North Frisian: ( Mooring ) greewe, ( Föhr-Amrum ) greew.Maori: karituangi ( to dig deep into the ground ), kari, tīkakukaku ( out of a receptacle ), ketu, keri, kō ( with a spade or shovel ), kōhure, whakapākihi ( superficially ), pūkari.Galician: escavar, cavar (gl), escaravellar (gl).More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. ( transitive, intransitive ) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel.More at ditch, dike.ĭig ( third-person singular simple present digs, present participle digging, simple past and past participle dug or ( archaic ) digged) Related to Middle French diguer ( “ to dig ” ), from Old French dikier, itself a borrowing of the same Germanic root (from Middle Dutch dijc). Akin to Danish dige ( “ to dig, raise a dike ” ), Swedish dika ( “ to dig ditches ” ). Additionally, Middle English diggen may derive from an unrecorded suffixed variant, *dīcgian. From Middle English diggen ( “ to dig ” ), alteration of Old English dīcian ( “ to dig a ditch, to mound up earth ” ) (compare Old English dīcere ( “ digger ” )) from dīc, dīċ ( “ dike, ditch ” ) from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz, *dīkiją ( “ pool, puddle ” ), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- ( “ to stab, dig ” ). ![]()
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