Wig Wig A wig is a head covering made from human hair, animal hair, or synthetic fiber. The word wig is short for periwig., which makes its earliest known appearance in the English language in William Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona". Julia, disguised as the boy Sebastian, says "I'll get me such a coloured periwig." [II,2.81] Some people wear wigs to disguise baldness; a wig may be used as a less intrusive and less expensive alternative to medical therapies for restoring hair or for a religious reason. In Egyptian society men and women commonly had clean shaven or close cropped
Intensive word form "pi`el" (intensive) and "hiph`il" (causative) binyans. Latin had verbal prefixes "e-" and "per-" that could be more or less freely added onto any verb and variously added such meanings as "to put a great deal of effort into doing something": "ructa" (burp), "eructa" (belch). When the same prefixes, especially "per", were added to adjectives, the resulting meaning was "very X" or "extremely X". Intensive word form In grammar, an intensive word form is one which denotes stronger, more forceful, or more concentrated action relative to the root on which the intensive is built. Intensives are usually lexical formations, but there