"haiga" meaning in Spanish

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Noun

IPA: /ˈaiɡa/, [ˈai̯.ɣ̞a] Forms: haigas [plural]
Rhymes: -aiɡa Etymology: From the phrase el coche más grande que haiga (literally “the biggest car there is”). haiga (see the first etymology under this section) is a nonstandard conjugation of the verb haber (the standard form is haya) and is often linked to how a person of low income speaks. Big cars were too linked with low-income individuals who wanted to appear very important, thus haiga became a pejorative name for big cars. Head templates: {{es-noun|m}} haiga m (plural haigas)
  1. (rare, derogatory, Spain) a huge and flashy motorcar, automobile Tags: Spain, archaic, derogatory, dialectal, masculine, proscribed, rare, sometimes
    Sense id: en-haiga-es-noun-kwVIjSCr Categories (other): Peninsular Spanish, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Spanish entries with incorrect language header, Spanish nouns with irregular gender Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 44 38 10 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 39 36 13 12 Disambiguation of Spanish entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of Spanish nouns with irregular gender: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ˈaiɡa/, [ˈai̯.ɣ̞a]
Rhymes: -aiɡa Etymology: Formed analogically on verbs having -g- inserted for their first-person present indicative and for all their present subjunctive (e.g. poner has pongo as its first-person present indicative and has -g- present in all its present subjunctive, including hacer, caer, oír, and decir). The -g- stem replaced many older verb stems, included -e-, -i-, -y-, all inherited from Latin, but did not replace the stems in the verb haber. Haiga was occasionally used in Old Spanish but never gained enough use to replace haya as other verb conjugations did with their verb. Head templates: {{head|es|verb form}} haiga, {{tlb|es|archaic|dialectal|proscribed|sometimes used as a joke}} (archaic, dialectal, proscribed, sometimes used as a joke)
  1. (chiefly Mexico, archaic) Alternative form of haya (“there is, there are”) Tags: Mexico, alt-of, alternative, archaic, dialectal, proscribed, sometimes Alternative form of: haya (extra: there is, there are)
    Sense id: en-haiga-es-verb-xbaKjnyG Categories (other): Mexican Spanish, Pages with entries, Spanish entries with incorrect language header, Spanish nouns with irregular gender Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 39 36 13 12 Disambiguation of Spanish entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of Spanish nouns with irregular gender: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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