aigu

Inherited from Middle French aigu, agu, from Old French agu, from Latin acūtus (“sharp”); related to English acute. The original Old French result was eü (preserved in the toponym Montheu < Latin Mons acutus (“sharp mountain”)), which was likely modified into the form agu based on the Latin, and then influenced by words like aigre, or aiguiser, as with aiguille.

Doublet of acut.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ.ɡy/ ~ /e.ɡy/

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aigu (feminine aiguë or aigüe, masculine plural aigus, feminine plural aiguës or aigües)

1. sharp, pointy
2. (of intelligence) acute, keen, discerning
3. (of sound) sharp, loud and high-pitched
4. (medicine) acute
5. (mathematics, of an angle) acute
6. (linguistics, of an accent) acute
7. (phonetics) front
   • 1911 April, “Quelques mots sur la pronunciation des lettres Turques”, in Dictionnaire turc-français:

     Les quatres autres e, i, u, oeu sont aiguës.

     The other four e, i, u, oeu are front.

• aiguiser
• aiguille
• aiguillon

• → Norwegian Bokmål: aigu

• “aigu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Proto-Finnic *aika. Cognates include Finnish aika and Karelian aika.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯ɡu/
• Hyphenation: ai‧gu
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯ɡu

aigu

1. time
2. (grammar) tense

• N. Gilojeva, S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect]‎^[1] (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 3
• Tatjana Boiko (2019) “aigu”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN

From French aigu (“sharp, acute”), from Middle French aigu, agu (“sharp”), from Old French agu, from Latin acūtus (“sharpened, spicy, subtle”), perfect passive participle of acuō (“I sharpen, put an acute accent on”), from acus (“needle, pin; bodkin”), from Proto-Italic *akus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱus, from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈɡyː/

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• Rhymes: -yː
• Hyphenation: ai‧gu

aigu m (definite singular aiguen, indefinite plural aiguer, definite plural aiguene)

1. Only used in accent aigu (“acute accent”)

• “aigu” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “aigu” in Store norske leksikon