ige

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Igede.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Igede terms

From Proto-Finnic *igen, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ikene. Cognate with Finnish ien and Hungarian íny.

ige (genitive igeme, partitive iget)

1. gum (part of mouth)

Declension of ige (ÕS type 4/ase, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		ige	igemed
accusative	nom.
	gen.	igeme
genitive			igemete
partitive		iget	igemeid
illative		igemesse	igemetesse igemeisse
inessive		igemes	igemetes igemeis
elative		igemest	igemetest igemeist
allative		igemele	igemetele igemeile
adessive		igemel	igemetel igemeil
ablative		igemelt	igemetelt igemeilt
translative		igemeks	igemeteks igemeiks
terminative		igemeni	igemeteni
essive		igemena	igemetena
abessive		igemeta	igemeteta
comitative		igemega	igemetega

• ige in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “ige”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Uncertain. Perhaps from a Turkic language.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈiɡɛ]
• Hyphenation: ige
• Rhymes: -ɡɛ

ige (plural igék)

1. (grammar) verb
2. (biblical) Word

• (verb): ige in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• ([textile industry] a folksy term for three yarns on the reel): ige in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /iɡe/

ige

1. (intransitive) to dream

• “ige”, in Dicionário da Língua Kadiwéu [Dictionary of the Kadiwéu Language] (in Portuguese), Sociedade Internacional de Linguística, 2002, page 76.

ige

1. where

From earlier irge (attested in Codrington 1885), from Proto-Torres-Banks *i ra ɣai, from Proto-Oceanic *i (“3rd person pronoun”) + *-ra (“3rd person plural suffix”) + *kai (“native, person”). Compare with dual yoge, trial tēlge.

• IPA^(key): /iɣɛ/

ige (plural)

1. the (plural article for human nouns)

   ige lōqōvēn ― (the) women

• General determiner; does not encode definiteness.
• Contrasts with singular na- (prefix), dual yoge, trial tēlge.

ige

1. people (generic plural for human nouns)

   Nitog etet ige! ― Stop staring at people!

   ige to-M̄otlap ― the people of Motalava (M̄otlap)

• Contrasts with 3rd plural personal pronoun kēy (they, them).

• François, Alexandre. 2005. A typological overview of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu. Linguistic typology 9 (1): 115–146. DOI:10.1515/lity.2005.9.1.115.
• François, Alexandre. 2026. Online Mwotlap–English–French cultural dictionary. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS (Pdf version). – entry ige.

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