tag

See also: Tag, TAG, tag-, tağ, tág, tåg, and tāğ

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: tăg, IPA^(key): /tæɡ/
• (North American also) IPA^(key): /teɪɡ/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æɡ

Noun

tag (plural tags)

1. (heading) Physical appendage.
   1. A small label.
   2. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
   3. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
   4. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
   5. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
   6. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
   7. Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.
      • 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:

        For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag

2. (heading) Last nonphysical appendage.
   1. (music) The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
   2. (television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.

      Antonym: cold open

      • 2006, Stephen V. Duncan, A Guide to Screenwriting Success, page 300:

        Often, the tag punctuates the "we're all in this together" theme and is topped with a laugh.

   3. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
3. (heading) Nonphysical label.
   1. (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").

      Synonyms: dialogue tag, speech tag, tag line

      • (Can we date this quote?), michael, alt.fiction.original‎^[1] (Usenet):

        Seems here like Russ would be speaking. You could use a tag here.

      • (Can we date this quote?), Jane MacDonald, alt.fiction.original‎^[2] (Usenet):

        If you want to start with talk, stick a tag in right away

      • (Can we date this quote?), bart_...@hotmail.com, alt.fiction.original‎^[3] (Usenet):

        You could combine these two paragraphs, I think, and rewrite to lose the tag portion of the third sentence.

   2. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.

      The <title> tag provides a title for the Web page.

      The <sarcasm> tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang.

   4. (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.

      I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.

4. (heading) Identity.
   1. (chiefly US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).

      The subwoofer in the trunk was so loud, it vibrated the tag like an aluminum can.

   2. (slang) A person's name.

      What’s your tag?

5. (heading) Involving being tagged physically.
   2. (uncountable) A game, especially for children on playgrounds, in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it"; any similar game of chasing and trying to reach, touch, shoot, or label other players.

      Synonym: (Australia) tips

      Hyponyms: archery tag, dart tag, freeze tag, laser tag, zombie tag

   3. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."

      The tag was applied at second for the final out.

6. (heading) Signature.
   1. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
      • 2011, Scape Martinez, Graff 2: Next Level Graffiti Techniques, page 124:

        There is a hierarchy of sorts: a throw-up can go over a tag, a piece over a throw-up, and a burner over a piece.

7. A type of cardboard.
8. A sheep in its first year.
   • 1807, The Complete Farmer, or, General Dictionary of Agriculture and Husbandry, →OCLC:

     After being weaned, the ram or wedder lamb is sometimes termed hog, hoggit, or tag, during the whole of the first year

Hyponyms

• accent tag
• archery tag
• bread tag
• cashtag
• dart tag
• dialog tag
• dog tag
• ear tag
• empty-element tag
• entity tag
• e-tag
• ETag
• fag tag
• freeze tag
• fusion tag
• hashtag
• HA-tag
• laser tag
• meta tag
• oak-tag
• oak tag
• on tag
• paired-end tag
• pet tag
• price tag
• producer tag
• question tag
• radio-tag
• radio tag
• rag-tag
• red tag
• return tag
• scaff tag
• short tag
• skin-tag
• slag tag
• tag-along right
• tag day
• tag off
• tag on
• tag-rag
• tag-rag and bobtail
• tag rugby
• tag sale
• tag soup
• tag team
• tag-team
• tag up
• tag wrestling
• toe-tag
• tone tag
• treasury tag
• zombie tag

 

Derived terms

• ear-tag
• ink tag
• nametag
• phone tag, telephone tag
• swing tag
• tag alder
• tagball
• tag cloud
• tag end
• tag group
• tagless
• tag line
• tag question
• tag-team, tag team
• tag, you're it
• toe tag

 

Translations

small label

• Bulgarian: етикет (bg) m (etiket)
• Catalan: etiqueta f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 標簽／标签 (zh) (biāoqiān)

• Czech: visačka f, etiketa (cs) f, cedulka (cs) f, štítek m
• Dutch: etiket (nl) n
• Esperanto: etikedo
• Finnish: lappu (fi), lappunen (fi), merkki (fi)
• French: étiquette (fr) f
• Georgian: იარლიყი (iarliq̇i)
• German: Etikett (de) n, Marke (de) f, Anhänger (de) m, Schildchen (de) n
• Greek: ετικέτα (el) (etikéta)
• Hungarian: címke (hu), cédula (hu)
• Italian: etichetta (it) f
• Lithuanian: etiketė, gairė
• Macedonian: етике́та f (etikéta), ознака f (oznaka)
• Malay: tanda (ms)
• Maori: tapanga
• Norwegian: etikett m, merkelapp m
• Persian: برچسب (fa) (bar-časb), اتیکت (fa) (etiket)
• Plautdietsch: Zadel n
• Polish: metka (pl) f, etykieta (pl) f
• Portuguese: etiqueta (pt)
• Romanian: etichetă (ro)
• Russian: ярлы́к (ru) m (jarlýk), би́рка (ru) f (bírka), этике́тка (ru) f (etikétka), номеро́к (ru) m (nomerók) (ticket with a number)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: етикета f

  Roman: etiketa (sh) f

• Spanish: etiqueta (es) f, marbete (es) m, rótulo (es) m, rotulata f, marchamo (es) m
• Swedish: etikett (sv) c
• Turkish: etiket (tr)

game

• Arabic: زَقِيطَة f (zaqīṭa)
• Armenian: բռնոցի (bṙnocʻi)
• Bulgarian: го́неница (bg) f (gónenica)
• Catalan: tocar i parar (ca)
• Czech: honěná (cs) f, hra na babu f
• Danish: fangeleg (da) c, tagfat
• Dutch: tikkertje (nl) n
• Esperanto: tuŝludo
• Estonian: kull (et), kullimäng (et), läts (dialectal)
• Finnish: hippa (fi), naatta
• French: chat (fr), loup (fr) m
• Galician: pillapilla m, pillada f
• German: Fangen (de) n, Fangspiel (de) n, (regional) Hast'se
• Hebrew: תופסת (he) f (tofeset)
• Hungarian: fogócska (hu)
• Italian: acchiapparello m
• Japanese: 鬼ごっこ (ja) (おにごっこ, onigokko), 鬼事 (おにごと, onigoto), 鬼遊び (ja) (おにあそび, oniasobi), おにごっこ (ja)
• Korean: 술래잡기 (sullaejapgi)
• Maori: wi
• Norwegian: sisten
• Polish: berek (pl) m
• Portuguese: pega-pega (pt), apanhada (pt) f
• Romanian: leapșa
• Russian: са́лки (ru) f pl (sálki), пятна́шки (ru) f pl (pjatnáški), догоня́лки (ru) f pl (dogonjálki)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: игра шуге f, игра ловице, шуга f, ловица f

  Roman: igra šuge f, igra lovice f, šuga (sh) f, lovica (sh) f

• Spanish: pilla pilla, pillarse (es) m, mbopa f (Argentina), chapadas (es) f pl (Peru)
• Sundanese: ucing-ucingan
• Swedish: tafatt (sv) n, datten (sv) c, kull (sv) n
• Turkish: elim sende

skin tag — see skin tag

type of cardboard

• Finnish: korttikartonki

type of graffiti

• Danish: tag (da) c
• Finnish: tagi (fi), tägi (fi), tag (fi)
• German: Tag (de) n
• Hungarian: graffitis névjegy
• Norwegian: tagg (no) m
• Portuguese: tag (pt) f
• Spanish: chapa (es) f
• Swedish: tagg (sv) c

dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung

attribution in narrated dialogue

music: last line or lines of a song's chorus that is repeated

• Bulgarian: припев (bg) m (pripev)
• Finnish: kertosäe (fi)

television: last scene of a TV program

vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data

• Finnish: rekisterikilpi (fi) (vehicle nr plate); tuntolevy (on soldier)

baseball: instance of touching the baserunner with the ball to rule him "out"

• Finnish: polttaminen (fi)

computing: element in a markup language

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 標記／标记 (zh) (biāojì)

• Czech: značka (cs) f
• Esperanto: kradvorto
• Finnish: tagi (fi), tunniste (fi)
• French: balise (fr)
• German: Tag (de) n
• Hebrew: תָּגִית f (tagít)
• Japanese: タグ (ja) (tagu)
• Macedonian: ознака f (oznaka)
• Maori: tūtohu
• Norwegian: tag (no) m
• Polish: znacznik (pl) m, tag (pl) m
• Russian: тег (ru) m (teg), тэг (ru) m (tɛg)
• Swedish: tagg (sv) c
• Ukrainian: теґ m (teg), тег m (teh)

computing: keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information

• Finnish: tagi (fi), tunniste (fi)
• French: attribut (fr) m
• Ukrainian: теґ m (teg), тег m (teh)

slight appendage

• Finnish: killutin (fi)

stiffening at the end of a string, or lace

• Bulgarian: накрайник (bg) m (nakrajnik)
• Finnish: holkki (fi)

catchword of an actor's speech

something mean and paltry — see rabble

sheep in its first year

• Finnish: vuona (fi)

biochemistry: short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins

• Finnish: merkkipeptidi

slang: person's name

See also

(children's game to avoid being "it"):

• chasey
• dodgeball
• paintball

Verb

tag (third-person singular simple present tags, present participle tagging, simple past and past participle tagged)

1. (transitive) To label (something).
2. (transitive) To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
3. (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.

   Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.

4. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.

   He really tagged that ball.

5. (transitive, vulgar, slang, 1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)

   Steve is dying to tag Angie from chemistry class.

6. (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.

   He tagged the runner for the out.

7. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).

   Antonym: untag

   I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.

8. (transitive, Internet) To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
   • 2021, Julie B. Wiest, Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age, page 82:

     One side wants to demonstrate a higher level of street knowledge and openly denounces the distorting lens of Instagram dissings; the other embraces the medium's branding affordances by sending “clout” to a third-party ally, while at the same time avoiding tagging the opponent.

9. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
   • 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “By Courier”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC:

     A tall young man came striding through the park along the path near which she sat. Behind him tagged a boy carrying a suit-case.

10. (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
11. (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
    • 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica‎^[4]:

      He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.

    • 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Eighth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

      His courteous host […] / Tags every sentence with some fawning word.

12. To fasten; to attach.
    • a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay

      they began to tag their law with the scraps of philofophy

Derived terms

• retag
• tag along
• tagged (adjective)
• tagger
• tagging (noun)
• tag out

Translations

to label

• Bulgarian: етикетирам (etiketiram)
• Catalan: etiquetar (ca)
• Czech: označit (cs), označkovat
• Finnish: merkitä (fi)
• French: étiqueter (fr)
• Hebrew: טייג (tiyég)
• Italian: etichettare (it), marcare (it)
• Macedonian: означува (označuva)
• Polish: oznaczyć (pl)
• Spanish: etiquetar (es), rotular (es)
• Swedish: märka (sv), etikettera (sv)

to mark with one’s tag (graffiti)

• Czech: tagovat
• Finnish: tagata (fi), tägätä (fi)
• French: taguer (fr)
• Maori: tūtohu
• Navajo: yikʼi naʼaghaz
• Swedish: tagga (sv)

to attach the name of a user so that they are linked from the post

• Portuguese: marcar (pt)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Aramaic תגא (taga, “crown”). Doublet of taj.

Noun

tag (plural tagin)

1. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.

References

• “tag”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Further reading

• tag (Hebrew writing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• tag (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ATG, GTA, TGA, gat

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• tage (Luserna)

Etymology

From Middle High German tag, tac, from Old High German tag, tac, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz. Cognate with German Tag, English day.

Noun

tag m (plural taaghe)

1. (Sette Comuni) day

Declension

Declension of tag – 1st declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	an	dar	tag	de	taaghe
accusative	an	in	tag	de	taaghe
dative	aname	me	taaghe	in	taaghen

Related terms

• gabüarttag

References

• “tag” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

Noun

tag

1. day
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Tag. Dies.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• knauen tag

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þak (“thatch, roof”), from Proto-Germanic *þaką, cognate with Swedish tak, English thack, thatch, German Dach, Dutch dak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taːˀɣ/, [ˈtˢæˀ(j)]

Noun

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tage)

1. roof

Declension

Declension of tag

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tag	taget	tage	tagene
genitive	tags	tagets	tages	tagenes

Derived terms

• stråtag
• taganlæg
• tagbeklædning
• tagbjælke
• tagdryp
• tagdækker
• tagdækning
• taghave
• tagkammer
• tagkonstruktion
• tagpap

 

Related terms

• tække

Etymology 2

From Old Norse tak (“hold, grasp”), cognate with Norwegian tak, Swedish tag. Derived from the verb taka (Danish tage).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta(ːˀ)ɣ/, [ˈtˢæˀ(j)], [ˈtˢɑw]

Noun

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tag)

1. hold, grasp, grip
2. stroke (with an oar or with the armes in the water)
3. handling, control

Declension

Declension of tag

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tag	taget	tag	tagene
genitive	tags	tagets	tags	tagenes

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English tag (since 1985).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɡ/, [ˈtˢæɡ̊]

Noun

tag n (singular definite tagget, plural indefinite tags)

1. tag (signature of a graffiti artist)
2. (computing) tag (markup in an electronic file)

Declension

Declension of tag

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tag	tagget	tags	taggene
genitive	tags	taggets	tags'	taggenes

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta(ːˀ)/, [ˈtˢæ(ˀ)]

Verb

tag

1. imperative of tage

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tag.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

tag n (plural tags, diminutive tagje n)

1. tag

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑɡ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ɡ]
• Rhymes: -ɑɡ
• Syllabification^(key): tag

Noun

tag

1. Alternative form of tagi

Declension

Inflection of tag (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		tag	tagit
genitive		tagin	tagien
partitive		tagia	tageja
illative		tagiin	tageihin
		singular	plural
nominative		tag	tagit
accusative	nom.	tag	tagit
	gen.	tagin
genitive		tagin	tagien
partitive		tagia	tageja
inessive		tagissa	tageissa
elative		tagista	tageista
illative		tagiin	tageihin
adessive		tagilla	tageilla
ablative		tagilta	tageilta
allative		tagille	tageille
essive		tagina	tageina
translative		tagiksi	tageiksi
abessive		tagitta	tageitta
instructive		—	tagein
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of tag (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative tagini tagini accusative nom. tagini tagini gen. tagini genitive tagini tagieni partitive tagiani tagejani inessive tagissani tageissani elative tagistani tageistani illative tagiini tageihini adessive tagillani tageillani ablative tagiltani tageiltani allative tagilleni tageilleni essive taginani tageinani translative tagikseni tageikseni abessive tagittani tageittani instructive — — comitative — tageineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative tagisi tagisi accusative nom. tagisi tagisi gen. tagisi genitive tagisi tagiesi partitive tagiasi tagejasi inessive tagissasi tageissasi elative tagistasi tageistasi illative tagiisi tageihisi adessive tagillasi tageillasi ablative tagiltasi tageiltasi allative tagillesi tageillesi essive taginasi tageinasi translative tagiksesi tageiksesi abessive tagittasi tageittasi instructive — — comitative — tageinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative tagimme tagimme accusative nom. tagimme tagimme gen. tagimme genitive tagimme tagiemme partitive tagiamme tagejamme inessive tagissamme tageissamme elative tagistamme tageistamme illative tagiimme tageihimme adessive tagillamme tageillamme ablative tagiltamme tageiltamme allative tagillemme tageillemme essive taginamme tageinamme translative tagiksemme tageiksemme abessive tagittamme tageittamme instructive — — comitative — tageinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative taginne taginne accusative nom. taginne taginne gen. taginne genitive taginne tagienne partitive tagianne tagejanne inessive tagissanne tageissanne elative tagistanne tageistanne illative tagiinne tageihinne adessive tagillanne tageillanne ablative tagiltanne tageiltanne allative tagillenne tageillenne essive taginanne tageinanne translative tagiksenne tageiksenne abessive tagittanne tageittanne instructive — — comitative — tageinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative taginsa taginsa accusative nom. taginsa taginsa gen. taginsa genitive taginsa tagiensa partitive tagiaan tagiansa tagejaan tagejansa inessive tagissaan tagissansa tageissaan tageissansa elative tagistaan tagistansa tageistaan tageistansa illative tagiinsa tageihinsa adessive tagillaan tagillansa tageillaan tageillansa ablative tagiltaan tagiltansa tageiltaan tageiltansa allative tagilleen tagillensa tageilleen tageillensa essive taginaan taginansa tageinaan tageinansa translative tagikseen tagiksensa tageikseen tageiksensa abessive tagittaan tagittansa tageittaan tageittansa instructive — — comitative — tageineen tageinensa

Further reading

• “tag”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja‎^[5] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English tag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɡ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɡ

Noun

tag m (plural tags)

1. tag

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taːk/
• Rhymes: -aːk

Verb

tag

1. singular imperative of tagen

Hungarian

Etymology 1

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒɡ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: tag
• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

tag (plural tagok)

2. member
3. Synonym of végtag (“limb”)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tag	tagok
accusative	tagot	tagokat
dative	tagnak	tagoknak
instrumental	taggal	tagokkal
causal-final	tagért	tagokért
translative	taggá	tagokká
terminative	tagig	tagokig
essive-formal	tagként	tagokként
essive-modal	tagul	—
inessive	tagban	tagokban
superessive	tagon	tagokon
adessive	tagnál	tagoknál
illative	tagba	tagokba
sublative	tagra	tagokra
allative	taghoz	tagokhoz
elative	tagból	tagokból
delative	tagról	tagokról
ablative	tagtól	tagoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	tagé	tagoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tagéi	tagokéi

Possessive forms of tag
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tagom	tagjaim
2nd person sing.	tagod	tagjaid
3rd person sing.	tagja	tagjai
1st person plural	tagunk	tagjaink
2nd person plural	tagotok	tagjaitok
3rd person plural	tagjuk	tagjaik

Derived terms

• taglal
• tagol
• tagolódik
• tagos
• tagosít
• tagozat
• tagozódik
• tagság
• tagú

 

Compound words

• családtag
• előtag
• klubtag
• párttag
• szótag
• tagdíj
• tagjelölt
• taglejtés
• tagország
• utótag
• végtag

 

Expressions

• alapító tag

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English tag (“piece of markup”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛɡ]
• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Noun

tag (plural tagek)

2. (computing) tag (a piece of markup representing an element in a markup language)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tag	tagek
accusative	taget	tageket
dative	tagnek	tageknek
instrumental	taggel	tagekkel
causal-final	tagért	tagekért
translative	taggé	tagekké
terminative	tagig	tagekig
essive-formal	tagként	tagekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tagben	tagekben
superessive	tagen	tageken
adessive	tagnél	tageknél
illative	tagbe	tagekbe
sublative	tagre	tagekre
allative	taghez	tagekhez
elative	tagből	tagekből
delative	tagről	tagekről
ablative	tagtől	tagektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	tagé	tageké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tagéi	tagekéi

Possessive forms of tag
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tagem	tagjeim
2nd person sing.	taged	tagjeid
3rd person sing.	tagje	tagjei
1st person plural	tagünk	tagjeink
2nd person plural	tagetek	tagjeitek
3rd person plural	tagjük	tagjeik

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English tag (“a piece of graffiti”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛɡ]
• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Noun

tag (plural tagek)

2. tag (graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tag	tagek
accusative	taget	tageket
dative	tagnek	tageknek
instrumental	taggel	tagekkel
causal-final	tagért	tagekért
translative	taggé	tagekké
terminative	tagig	tagekig
essive-formal	tagként	tagekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tagben	tagekben
superessive	tagen	tageken
adessive	tagnél	tageknél
illative	tagbe	tagekbe
sublative	tagre	tagekre
allative	taghez	tagekhez
elative	tagből	tagekből
delative	tagről	tagekről
ablative	tagtől	tagektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	tagé	tageké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tagéi	tagekéi

Possessive forms of tag
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tagem	tagjeim
2nd person sing.	taged	tagjeid
3rd person sing.	tagje	tagjei
1st person plural	tagünk	tagjeink
2nd person plural	tagetek	tagjeitek
3rd person plural	tagjük	tagjeik

Further reading

• tag in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Meriam

Noun

tag

1. arm, hand

Middle High German

Noun

tag m

1. Alternative form of tac

Declension

Declension of tag (masculine, class 1 strong)

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	dër	tag	die	tage
genitive	eines	dës	tages	dër	tage
dative	eime	dëm	tage	dën	tagen
accusative	einen	dën	tag	die	tage

Old High German

Alternative forms

• tac, tak, dac, *dag — northern

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, whence also Old English dæġ, Old Norse dagr, Old Dutch and Old Saxon dag, Old High German tag, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɡ/, /taɣ/

Noun

tag m (plural taga)

1. day

   tag after tage

   day after day

Declension

Declension of tag (masculine a-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	tag	taga
accusative	tag	taga
genitive	tages	tago
dative	tage	tagum
instrumental	tagu	—

Derived terms

• *ariōtag
• frīatag
• frōnotag
• tagalih
  • tagalihhen
  • tagalihhes
  • tagalihhida
• sambaztag
• ziestag

Descendants

• Middle High German: tac, tag, dach
  • Alemannic German: Tag

    Alsatian: Dàà (north), Dàj (center), Dàg (south)

    Italian Walser: tag, tog, tàg

    Swabian: Dag

  • Bavarian: Da, Dåg, Doch

    Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag, tage

    Mòcheno: ta

    Udinese: tach, ti

  • Central Franconian: Daach

    Hunsrik: Daagh, taach (Wiesemann spelling system)

  • East Central German:

    Upper Saxon German: Dag

  • German: Tag

    Esperanto: tago

  • Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
  • Rhine Franconian: Tach

    Pennsylvania German: Daag

  • Transylvanian Saxon: Dåch
  • Vilamovian: taog
  • Yiddish: טאָג (tog)

References

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English tag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtak/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: tag
• Homophones: Tag, tak

Noun

tag m inan

1. (computing) tag (piece of markup representing an element in a markup language)

   Synonym: znacznik

Declension

Declension of tag

	singular	plural
nominative	tag	tagi
genitive	tagu	tagów
dative	tagowi	tagom
accusative	tag	tagi
instrumental	tagiem	tagami
locative	tagu	tagach
vocative	tagu	tagi

Further reading

• tag in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tag in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tag.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɡi/, /ˈtɛ.ɡi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɡi/, /ˈtɛ.ɡi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɡe/, /ˈtɛ.ɡe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɡɨ/ [ˈta.ɣɨ], /ˈtɛ.ɡɨ/ [ˈtɛ.ɣɨ]

Noun

tag f or m (plural tags)

1. tag (type of graffiti)
2. an RFID chip, especially one used to unlock electronic door locks, often carried as a key fob
3. (computing) tag (a markup instruction)

Sumerian

Romanization

tag

1. Romanization of 𒋳 (tag)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse tak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑːɡ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

tag n

1. a grip, a hold (of something)

   Tappa inte taget

   Don't lose your grip

   Släpp inte taget!

   Don't let go [Don't release your grip]!

   ta tag i något

   grab something [take grip in something]

   få tag i någon/något

   get hold of someone/something

2. (figuratively, in "ta tag i (något)") to get down to dealing with (something)
3. a stroke (with oars or an oar, a paddle, or the like; in swimming)

   ett tag till med åran

   one more stroke with the oar

   ta ett årtag

   take a stroke with oars (or an oar)

   ta ett paddeltag

   take a stroke with a paddle

   ta några simtag

   take a few swimming strokes

4. a while (limited, often short time period)

   Hon kommer om ett tag

   She will be here in a while

   Det kommer ta ett bra tag

   It will take a good while

   ett litet tag

   a little while

   Det är inget jag glömmer i första taget

   It's not something I will forget in a hurry [in the first while]

5. a manner of doing something (can be thought of as "grips" as a metaphor for how one goes about something)

   en maskin som tål tuffa tag

   a machine that can take a beating ("that can stand tough grips")

   friska tag

   spunk, vigor ("fresh grips")

   Somliga gillar hårda tag

   Some like it rough

Declension

Declension of tag

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	tag	tags
	definite	taget	tagets
plural	indefinite	tag	tags
	definite	tagen	tagens

Derived terms

• vara i tagen

See also

• grabba

Verb

tag

1. imperative of taga

Alternative forms

• ta

References

• tag in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tag in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tag in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• ATG

Welsh

Etymology

Back-formation from tagu (“to strangle, to choke”).

Noun

tag m (plural tagau or tagion)

1. choking, suffocation

Derived terms

• bleidd-dag (“wolfsbane, monkshood”)
• llindag (“suffocation; snare; dodder; thrush”)
• tagaradr (“restharrow”)
• tagell (“gill; jowl”)
• tagfa (“choking, throttling; bottleneck”)
• taglys (“bindweed”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of tag

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tag	dag	nhag	thag

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tag”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

White Hmong

Etymology

See tas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta˧˩̤/

Noun

tag

1. Alternative form of tas (“day segment”)

Particle

tag

1. Alternative form of tas (“completion particle”)

Usage notes

More commonly used than tas.

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[6], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.