aigu

See also: áigu and àigù

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French aigu, agu, from Old French agu, from Latin acūtus (“sharp”); related to English acute. The original Old French result was eü (preserved in the toponym Montheu < Latin Mons acutus (“sharp mountain”)), which was likely modified into the form agu based on the Latin, and then influenced by words like aigre, or aiguiser, as with aiguille.

Doublet of acut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ.ɡy/ ~ /e.ɡy/

• Audio:

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Adjective

aigu (feminine aiguë or aigüe, masculine plural aigus, feminine plural aiguës or aigües)

1. sharp, pointy
2. (of intelligence) acute, keen, discerning
3. (of sound) sharp, loud and high-pitched
4. (medicine) acute
5. (mathematics, of an angle) acute
6. (linguistics, of an accent) acute
7. (phonetics) front
   • 1911 April, “Quelques mots sur la pronunciation des lettres Turques”, in Dictionnaire turc-français:

     Les quatres autres e, i, u, oeu sont aiguës.

     The other four e, i, u, oeu are front.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• accent aigu
• aigüité / aiguïté
• angle aigu
• subaigu

Related terms

• aiguiser
• aiguille
• aiguillon

Descendants

• → Norwegian Bokmål: aigu

Further reading

• “aigu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aika. Cognates include Finnish aika and Karelian aika.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯ɡu/
• Hyphenation: ai‧gu
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯ɡu

Noun

aigu

1. time
2. (grammar) tense

Declension

Declension of aigu (Type 3/jalgu, ig-ij gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	aigu	aijat
genitive	aijan	aijoin
partitive	aigua	aigoi
illative	aigah	aigoih
inessive	aijas	aijois
elative	aijaspäi	aijoispäi
allative	aijale	aijoile
adessive	aijal	aijoil
ablative	aijalpäi	aijoilpäi
translative	aijakse	aijoikse
essive	aijannu	aijoinnu
abessive	aijattah	aijoittah
comitative	aijanke	aijoinke
instructive		aijoin
prolative	aijači

Derived terms

• aiguero
• aiguhälytin
• aigukauzi

 

References

• N. Gilojeva, S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect]‎^[1] (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 3
• Tatjana Boiko (2019) “aigu”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French aigu (“sharp, acute”), from Middle French aigu, agu (“sharp”), from Old French agu, from Latin acūtus (“sharpened, spicy, subtle”), perfect passive participle of acuō (“I sharpen, put an acute accent on”), from acus (“needle, pin; bodkin”), from Proto-Italic *akus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱus, from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈɡyː/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -yː
• Hyphenation: ai‧gu

Noun

aigu m (definite singular aiguen, indefinite plural aiguer, definite plural aiguene)

1. Only used in accent aigu (“acute accent”)

References

• “aigu” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “aigu” in Store norske leksikon