"tiger" meaning in Old English

See tiger in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈti.ɡer/, [ˈti.ɣer]
Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *tīgr (“tiger”). Etymology templates: {{dercat|ang|la|grc}}, {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*tīgr|t=tiger}} Proto-West Germanic *tīgr (“tiger”) Head templates: {{head|ang|nouns|nominative plural|tigras|||g=m|g2=|g3=|head=|head2=|sort=}} tiger m (nominative plural tigras), {{ang-noun|m|tigras}} tiger m (nominative plural tigras) Inflection templates: {{ang-decl-noun-a-m|tigr|nomsg=tiger}}, {{ang-decl-noun|tiger|tigras|tiger|tigras|tigres|tigra|tigre|tigrum|num=|title=|type=strong a-stem}} Forms: tigras [nominative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], tiger [nominative, singular], tigras [nominative, plural], tiger [accusative, singular], tigras [accusative, plural], tigres [genitive, singular], tigra [genitive, plural], tigre [dative, singular], tigrum [dative, plural]
  1. tiger Tags: masculine Derived forms: tigrisċ
    Sense id: en-tiger-ang-noun-8VwWuZ-C Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 12 entries, Pages with entries, Felids

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "tygre",
            "qq": "partially from Old French"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: tygre, tygur, tygyr, tigre, tiger, teger, tegre (partially from Old French)\nEnglish: tiger, tyger, tygre (see there for further descendants)\nScots: teeger",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: tygre, tygur, tygyr, tigre, tiger, teger, tegre (partially from Old French)\nEnglish: tiger, tyger, tygre (see there for further descendants)\nScots: teeger"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "grc"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*tīgr",
        "t": "tiger"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *tīgr (“tiger”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *tīgr (“tiger”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tigras",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-decl-noun-a-m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tiger",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tigras",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tiger",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tigras",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tigres",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tigra",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tigre",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tigrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "nominative plural",
        "4": "tigras",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "head2": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "tiger m (nominative plural tigras)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "tigras"
      },
      "expansion": "tiger m (nominative plural tigras)",
      "name": "ang-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tigr",
        "nomsg": "tiger"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun-a-m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tiger",
        "2": "tigras",
        "3": "tiger",
        "4": "tigras",
        "5": "tigres",
        "6": "tigra",
        "7": "tigre",
        "8": "tigrum",
        "num": "",
        "title": "",
        "type": "strong a-stem"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 12 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ang",
          "name": "Felids",
          "orig": "ang:Felids",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "tigrisċ"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Then, through his wonderful might, God created all the kinds of animals according to their kinds, and the wild animals that dwell in the woods, and all the four-footed creatures of the aforementioned earth, and all the kinds of creeping reptiles, and the savage lions, which do not live here, and the swift tigers, and the marvelous leopards, and the fearful bears, and the huge elephants.",
          "roman": "Hwæt ðā God ġeworhte ðurh his wunderlīċan mihte eall nȳtencynn on heora cynrynum, and ðā wildan dēor ðe on wudum eardiað, and eall ðæt fīðerfōte byð of ðǣre foresǣdan eorðan, and eall wyrmcynn ðā ðe crēopende bēoð, and ðā reðan lēon, ðe hēr on lande ne bēoð, and ðā swiftan tigres, and ðā syllican pardes, and ðā eġeslīċan beran, and ðā ormǣtan ylpas.",
          "text": "c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham (tr.), Hexameron of St. Basil",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "tiger"
      ],
      "id": "en-tiger-ang-noun-8VwWuZ-C",
      "links": [
        [
          "tiger",
          "#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈti.ɡer/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈti.ɣer]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tiger"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "tigrisċ"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "tygre",
            "qq": "partially from Old French"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: tygre, tygur, tygyr, tigre, tiger, teger, tegre (partially from Old French)\nEnglish: tiger, tyger, tygre (see there for further descendants)\nScots: teeger",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: tygre, tygur, tygyr, tigre, tiger, teger, tegre (partially from Old French)\nEnglish: tiger, tyger, tygre (see there for further descendants)\nScots: teeger"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "grc"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*tīgr",
        "t": "tiger"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *tīgr (“tiger”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *tīgr (“tiger”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tigras",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-decl-noun-a-m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tiger",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tigras",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tiger",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tigras",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tigres",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tigra",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tigre",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tigrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "nominative plural",
        "4": "tigras",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "head2": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "tiger m (nominative plural tigras)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "tigras"
      },
      "expansion": "tiger m (nominative plural tigras)",
      "name": "ang-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tigr",
        "nomsg": "tiger"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun-a-m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tiger",
        "2": "tigras",
        "3": "tiger",
        "4": "tigras",
        "5": "tigres",
        "6": "tigra",
        "7": "tigre",
        "8": "tigrum",
        "num": "",
        "title": "",
        "type": "strong a-stem"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Old English lemmas",
        "Old English masculine a-stem nouns",
        "Old English masculine nouns",
        "Old English nouns",
        "Old English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "Old English terms derived from Latin",
        "Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
        "Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
        "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Old English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 12 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "ang:Felids"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Then, through his wonderful might, God created all the kinds of animals according to their kinds, and the wild animals that dwell in the woods, and all the four-footed creatures of the aforementioned earth, and all the kinds of creeping reptiles, and the savage lions, which do not live here, and the swift tigers, and the marvelous leopards, and the fearful bears, and the huge elephants.",
          "roman": "Hwæt ðā God ġeworhte ðurh his wunderlīċan mihte eall nȳtencynn on heora cynrynum, and ðā wildan dēor ðe on wudum eardiað, and eall ðæt fīðerfōte byð of ðǣre foresǣdan eorðan, and eall wyrmcynn ðā ðe crēopende bēoð, and ðā reðan lēon, ðe hēr on lande ne bēoð, and ðā swiftan tigres, and ðā syllican pardes, and ðā eġeslīċan beran, and ðā ormǣtan ylpas.",
          "text": "c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham (tr.), Hexameron of St. Basil",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "tiger"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tiger",
          "#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈti.ɡer/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈti.ɣer]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tiger"
}

Download raw JSONL data for tiger meaning in Old English (3.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Old English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (92124b4 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.