twig

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• US: /twɪɡ/
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• US: [thw̥ɪɡ]
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PIE word *dwóh1 Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *twīgą Proto-West Germanic *twīg Old English twiġ Middle English twig English twig From Middle English twig, twyg, twigge, twygge, from Old English twigg, twicg, from Proto-West Germanic *twiggu (“small twig, shoot”), apparently a diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *twig (“branch, twig”) (whence also Old English twiġ and twiġa), from Proto-Germanic *twīgą, from Proto-Indo-European *dwighom, from *dwóh1. More at two. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian twiich, twiig (“twig”), Saterland Frisian Twiech (“branch, twig”), West Frisian twiich (“twig”), Dutch twijg (“twig”), German Zweig (“branch, twig; section”), German Low German Twieg (“branch, twig”), Luxembourgish Zwäig (“twig”), Yiddish צווײַג (tsvayg, “branch”); also Old Church Slavonic двигъ (dvigŭ, “branch”), Albanian degë (“branch”).

From Irish and Scottish Gaelic tuig (“to understand”).

Compare tweak.

132 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: а́махә (ámaxw) — a small thin branch
• Abkhaz: а́махәҭа (ámaxwta) — a small thin branch
• Afrikaans: takkie — a small thin branch
• Albanian: bisk — a small thin branch
• Albanian: krane — a small thin branch
• Southern Altai: будак (budak) — a small thin branch
• Southern Altai: чыбык (čïbïk) — a small thin branch
• Arabic: غُصَّيْن (ḡuṣṣayn) — a small thin branch
• Aragonese: branca — a small thin branch
• Armenian: շիվ (šiv) — a small thin branch
• Assamese: ঠানি (thani) — a small thin branch
• Assamese: ঠালি (thali) — a small thin branch
• Assamese: ডালি (dali) — a small thin branch
• Bashkir: ботаҡ (botaq) — a small thin branch
• Bashkir: сыбыҡ (sıbıq) — a small thin branch
• Belarusian: галіна́ (haliná) — a small thin branch
• Belarusian: галі́нка (halínka) — a small thin branch
• Bulgarian: кло́нка (klónka) — a small thin branch
• Bulgarian: ве́йка (véjka) — a small thin branch
• Chinese Mandarin: 枝 (zhī) — a small thin branch
• Chinese Mandarin: 樹枝 /树枝 (shùzhī) — a small thin branch
• Czech: větvička — a small thin branch
• Danish: kvist — a small thin branch
• Dutch: twijg — a small thin branch
• Esperanto: branĉeto — a small thin branch
• Estonian: oks — a small thin branch
• Estonian: vits — a small thin branch
• Faroese: kvistur — a small thin branch
• Finnish: vitsa — a small thin branch
• Finnish: risu — a small thin branch
• French: brindille — a small thin branch
• Galician: guizo — a small thin branch
• Galician: bringa — a small thin branch
• Galician: verga — a small thin branch
• Galician: garabullo — a small thin branch
• German: Zweig — a small thin branch
• Ancient Greek: κάρφος (kárphos) — a small thin branch
• Higaonon: sanga — a small thin branch
• Hungarian: gally — a small thin branch
• Icelandic: kvistur — a small thin branch
• Ingrian: vitsa — a small thin branch
• Irish: craobhóg — a small thin branch
• Italian: ramoscello — a small thin branch
• Italian: verga — a small thin branch
• Italian: rametto — a small thin branch
• Japanese: 小枝 (koeda) — a small thin branch
• Japanese: 枝 (eda) — a small thin branch
• Korean: 나뭇가지 (namutgaji) — a small thin branch
• Latin: rāmulus — a small thin branch
• Latin: virga — a small thin branch
• Lithuanian: šakelė — a small thin branch
• Lithuanian: šaka — a small thin branch
• Low German: Twieg — a small thin branch
• Macedonian: гранче (granče) — a small thin branch
• Malay: ranting — a small thin branch
• Malayalam: ചുള്ളി (cuḷḷi) — a small thin branch
• Māori: tākupu — a small thin branch
• Māori: kōetoeto — a small thin branch
• Māori: rārā — a small thin branch
• Māori: puaka — a small thin branch
• Marshallese: aļaļ — a small thin branch
• Middle English: twygge — a small thin branch
• Norman: brantchette — a small thin branch
• Norwegian: kvist — a small thin branch
• Old English: twiġ — a small thin branch
• Persian: ترکه (tarke) — a small thin branch
• Polish: gałązka — a small thin branch
• Polish: witka — a small thin branch
• Portuguese: galho — a small thin branch
• Portuguese: ramo — a small thin branch
• Romanian: rămurea — a small thin branch
• Romanian: rămurică — a small thin branch
• Romanian: nuia — a small thin branch
• Romanian: vargă — a small thin branch
• Romanian: smicea — a small thin branch
• Russian: ве́тка (vétka) — a small thin branch
• Russian: ве́точка (vétočka) — a small thin branch
• Scottish Gaelic: bioran — a small thin branch
• Scottish Gaelic: meangan — a small thin branch
• Scottish Gaelic: meanglan — a small thin branch
• Scottish Gaelic: ògan — a small thin branch
• Scottish Gaelic: òganach — a small thin branch
• Scottish Gaelic: sprios — a small thin branch
• Serbo-Croatian: гранчица — a small thin branch
• Serbo-Croatian: вејка — a small thin branch
• Serbo-Croatian: grančica — a small thin branch
• Serbo-Croatian: vejka — a small thin branch
• Sikkimese: ལྕུག་ཕྲན (lcug phran) — a small thin branch
• Slovak: vetvička — a small thin branch
• Old Slovak: rázga — a small thin branch
• Slovene: vejica — a small thin branch
• Spanish: ramita — a small thin branch
• Spanish: ramilla — a small thin branch
• Spanish: vara — a small thin branch
• Swedish: kvist — a small thin branch
• Tagalog: siit — a small thin branch
• Tagalog: gangaw — a small thin branch
• Tagalog: sangay — a small thin branch
• Tamil: சுள்ளி (cuḷḷi) — a small thin branch
• Telugu: రెమ్మ (remma) — a small thin branch
• Thai: กิ่ง (gìng) — a small thin branch
• Turkish: çalı çırpı — a small thin branch
• Ukrainian: гі́лка (hílka) — a small thin branch
• Ukrainian: гі́лочка (híločka) — a small thin branch
• Ukrainian: галу́зка (halúzka) — a small thin branch
• Unami: siakw — a small thin branch
• Unami: hìtùkwtët — a small thin branch
• Vietnamese: cành — a small thin branch
• Vietnamese: nhánh — a small thin branch
• Welsh: brigyn — a small thin branch
• Zazaki: sılo (diq) — a small thin branch
• Abkhaz: ауаҩ абаа (awajw abaa) — a skinny person
• Spanish: quirina — a skinny person
• Bulgarian: схващам (shvaštam) — to realise something
• Bulgarian: загрявам (zagrjavam) — to realise something
• French: entraver — to realise something
• French: capter — to realise something
• French: piger — to realise something
• German: mitbekommen — to realise something
• German: mitkriegen — to realise something
• German: checken — to realise something
• Japanese: 気づく (kizuku) — to realise something
• Lithuanian: suvokti — to realise something
• Lithuanian: susigaudyti — to realise something
• Lithuanian: įsisąmoninti — to realise something
• Portuguese: imaginar — to realise something
• Russian: догада́ться (dogadátʹsja) — to realise something
• Russian: смекну́ть (smeknútʹ) — to realise something
• Russian: просе́чь (proséčʹ) — to realise something
• Scottish Gaelic: tuig — to realise something
• Swedish: greppa — to realise something
• Swedish: fatta — to realise something