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English

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Etymology 1

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Clipping of signature.

Noun

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sig (plural sigs)

  1. (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.
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Etymology 2

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

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To good-naturedly make fun of someone; to signify.
    Synonyms: banter, (AAVE) jone
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Etymology 3

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Clipping of sigma.

Noun

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sig (plural sigs)

  1. (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.
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Etymology 4

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From Middle English sige. Cognate with Middle Dutch seic, seike, Middle Low German seyche. Related also to sink (to fall). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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Noun

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sig (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dialectal, dated) Urine.

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Danish

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Etymology 1

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

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sig

  1. (reflexive pronoun) third-person pronoun
    Hunden slikkede sig ren.
    The dog licked itself clean.
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For all other persons (both singular and plural) the personal accusative pronoun is used.

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Etymology 2

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See sige.

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sig

  1. imperative of sige

Faroese

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sig

  1. imperative singular of siga

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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
    Synonym: framfall
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Etymology 2

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

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sig (genitive singular sín, no plural)

  1. (reflexive pronoun) oneself (and also depending on context himself, herself, itself and themselves)
    Hann drap sig.
    He killed himself.
    Hún drap sig.
    She killed herself.
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Norwegian Nynorsk

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sig

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

Old English

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sīġ

  1. Alternative form of sīe

Sumerian

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sig

  1. Romanization of 𒋝 (sig)

Swedish

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Alternative forms

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  • sej (strongly colloquial)

Etymology

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

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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?

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Western Apache

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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sig

  1. scar

Usage notes

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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;