dig

Etymology 1
From, alteration of (compare 🇨🇬) from  from , , from. Additionally, 🇨🇬 may derive from an unrecorded suffixed variant,. Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related to 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬, itself a borrowing of the same Germanic root (from 🇨🇬). More at ditch, dike.

Verb

 * 1)  To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
 * 2)  To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
 * 3)  To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
 * 4)  To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
 * 5)  To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
 * 6) To thrust; to poke.
 * 7)  To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
 * 1)  To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
 * 2)  To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
 * 3)  To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
 * 4) To thrust; to poke.
 * 5)  To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
 * 1)  To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
 * 2) To thrust; to poke.
 * 3)  To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
 * 1) To thrust; to poke.
 * 2)  To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
 * 1)  To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
 * 1)  To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
 * 1)  To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball

Translations

 * 'Are'are: 'eri
 * Afrikaans: grawe, spit, delf
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: حفر
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܚܦܪ
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: arãm, sap
 * Assamese:
 * Central: খান্দা
 * Eastern: খন্দা
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Belarusian: капа́ць, выкапаць
 * Bulgarian:, , ,
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: малтаха
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏍᎪᏍᎦ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:, rýt
 * Danish: grave
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Even: улдэй
 * Evenki: улэми
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: escavar, ,
 * Georgian: ბარვა, თხრა, გათხრა, ამოთხრა
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σκάπτω, ὀρύσσω
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Ilocano: kali
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: tochail, rómhair
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: dhudhuk
 * Kalmyk: малтх
 * Kapampangan: kulkul
 * Kashubian: kòpac
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ھەڵکوڵین, ھەڵقەندن, کوڵین, کوڵاندن
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latgalian: rakt, best, kast
 * Latin: fodiō,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:, rausti
 * Luxembourgish: gruewen
 * Macedonian: ко́па
 * Malay:, korek
 * Maltese: ħaffer
 * Manchu: ᡶᡝᡨᡝᠮᠪᡳ
 * Mansaka: kari
 * Maori: karituangi, kari, tīkakukaku , ketu, keri, kō , kōhure, whakapākihi , pūkari
 * Marathi: खोदणे, खणणे
 * Middle English: delven, graven
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Nanai: хулэ-
 * Nepali:
 * Ngazidja Comorian: tsimba
 * Norman: creuser, foui, fouoilli
 * North Frisian: greewe,  greew
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:, excavar
 * Odia:
 * Old English: delfan
 * Papiamentu: koba
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: vanghé
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: allay, haratay
 * Rapa Nui: karo
 * Romagnol: vanghêr
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: stgavar
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cladhaich
 * Serbo-Croatian: копати,, рити,
 * Shor: қазарға
 * Slovak: kopať, ryť
 * Slovene:, ríti
 * Somali: qodid
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: ryś
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Sundanese:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: maghukay, hukayin, dukalin
 * Tamil: ,
 * Tausug: kali
 * Tetum: ke'e
 * Thai:
 * Tocharian B: rāp-
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: копа́ти, ри́ти
 * Urdu: کھودنا
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: ,
 * White Hmong: khawb
 * Yakut: хас
 * Yiddish: גראָבן
 * Zazaki: kenden, kenen
 * Zealandic: delve, graeve
 * Zulu: mba


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: bain
 * Lithuanian:, iškasti
 * Maori: houhou, tīpoka, karokaro, hahu, hauhake , huke
 * Nyunga: beena
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Ukrainian: вико́пувати,, вирива́ти, ви́рити


 * Albanian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua:, ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Maori:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu:
 * Tongan:

Noun

 * 1) An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
 * 2) A thrust; a poke.
 * 3)  A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
 * 4)  An innings.
 * 5) A cutting, sarcastic remark.
 * 6) The occupation of digging for gold.
 * 7)  A plodding and laborious student.
 * 8)  A tool for digging.
 * 9)  A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
 * 1) The occupation of digging for gold.
 * 2)  A plodding and laborious student.
 * 3)  A tool for digging.
 * 4)  A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
 * 1) The occupation of digging for gold.
 * 2)  A plodding and laborious student.
 * 3)  A tool for digging.
 * 4)  A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
 * 1)  A plodding and laborious student.
 * 2)  A tool for digging.
 * 3)  A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
 * 1)  A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.

Derived terms

 * dig box

Translations

 * Afrikaans: opgrawing
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: udgravning
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: გათხრა, გათხრები, ექსკავაცია
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: חפירות
 * Icelandic: uppgröftur
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: izkop
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Etymology 2
From ; due to lack of writing of slave speech, etymology is to trace, but it has been suggested that it is from,. It has also been suggested that it is from, thus being a. Others do not propose a distinct etymology, instead considering this a semantic shift of the existing English term (compare dig in/dig into).

Verb

 * 1)  To understand.
 * 2)   To appreciate, or like.
 * 1)   To appreciate, or like.
 * 1)   To appreciate, or like.

Derived terms

 * dig on

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Danish:, være med
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Irish: tuig
 * Spanish: picar el interés,
 * Swedish: vara med


 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: fíla
 * Norwegian: digge
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish: caer bien,
 * Swedish:

Etymology 3
Shortening.

Noun

 * 1)  Digoxin.

Etymology 4
Unknown.

Noun

 * 1)  A duck.
 * 2) * 10 March, 1616, excerpt from "A true and perfect Inventory of all the Goods &c. which late were of Philippe Oldfeid," reprinted in 1890, J.P. Earwaker (ed., compiler), "Badwall Township: Berington of Moorsbarrow and Bradwall, Pedigree" in The History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach, Co. Chester.
 * Powltrey, &c, &c. Item ten turkeys [...] Item three Digs [an old Cheshire word for duck] and a Drake [...] Item ffower Capons [...]
 * [The word's gloss has been inserted by Earwaker]

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) closed, shut
 * 2) dense

Etymology 2
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  to compose a poem

Pronoun

 * 1)  you

Usage notes
Also used as a reflexive pronoun with a 2nd person subject

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) dike

Etymology
From, from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) you

Usage notes

 * Note that some verbs have special senses when used reflexively. For example, do not confuse du lär dig att... ("you learn to...") [reflexive] with jag lär dig att... ("I teach you to...") or du lär dig själv att... ("you teach yourself to..."). Here, lär means teach(es) if it is not reflexive, but learn(s) if it is reflexive. Thus, the separate pronoun "dig själv" is needed when object and subject agree, even though the verb should not be used in the reflexive case.
 * Also note that in the imperative, when there's usually no explicit subject given, the "själv" is dropped.
 * (along with ) was popular as a semi-informal spelling around the 1970s to 1980s, and is therefore seen in many old song lyrics, for example. Usage has now mostly reverted back to dig.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  duck