twig

Bedeutung (English)

Noun

1. A small thin branch of a tree or bush.
2. (slang) Somebody, or one of his body parts, not looking developed.

Verb

To beat with twigs.

Verb

1. (colloquial) To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.
2. To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
3. To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To pull
2. To twitch
3. To tweak

Konzepte

Zweig

Ast

kapieren

sehen

👀

checken

mitbekommen

Rute

Gerte

mitkriegen

dünner Zweig

Baguette

kleiner Zweig

merken

Reis

🍚

Reisig

schnallen

Spross

Synonyms

branch

sprig

stick

switch

bough

small branch

branchlet

limb

shoot

spray

realize

sprout

diviner

get it

rod

small stick

cotton on

see

👀

small bough

get onto

get wise

slip

stem

leaf

birch

tumble

verse

ferule

wand

offshoot

whip

withe

catch on

get

latch on

scion

bamboo

🎍

pick things up

bow

🙇

brushwood

burgeon

cane

cutting

fashion

fence

figure out

grok

jut

know

leg

🦵

log

offset

phylum

rail

sapling

shaft

shrub

spring

staff

stalk

tilt

seize on

tree

🌳

understand

vogue

wattle

wood

🪵

young shoot

get the picture

young branch

ramulus

divining-rod

subshrub

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/twɪɡ/

Etymologie (English)

Inherited from Mittelenglisch: twig

Inherited from Altenglisch: twiġ

Cognate with Westfriesisch: twiich

Cognate with Niederländisch: twijg

Cognate with Deutsch: Zweig

Cognate with Kirchenslawisch: двигъ

Cognate with Albanisch: degë

In summary

PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English twig, twyg, from Old English twiġ, from Proto-Germanic *twīgą (compare West Frisian twiich, Dutch twijg, German Zweig), from Proto-Indo-European *dweygʰom (compare Old Church Slavonic двигъ (dvigŭ, “branch”), Albanian degë (“branch”)), from *dwóh₁. More at two.