tigo

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French tige (“stem, stalk”). Doublet of tibio.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈtiɡo]
  • Rhymes: -iɡo
  • Hyphenation: ti‧go

Noun

tigo (accusative singular tigon, plural tigoj, accusative plural tigojn)

  1. (botany) haulm, stalk, stem (of a plant)

Minangkabau
Minangkabau cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : tigo
    Ordinal : katigo

Etymology

Compare Indonesian tiga, Malay tiga.

Numeral

tigo

  1. three

Ternate

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈti.ɡo]

Verb

tigo

  1. (intransitive) for one's joints to ache
Conjugation
Conjugation of tigo
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st totigo fotigo mitigo
2nd notigo nitigo
3rd Masculine otigo itigo, yotigo†
Feminine motigo
Neuter itigo
† - archaic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈti.ɡo]

Verb

tigo

  1. (intransitive) to choke
  2. (stative) to be stuck

Etymology 3

Possibly assimilated from Malay tinggal. However, de Clercq lists the verbs tikah and tego of almost identical meaning, of one of which this may be a descendant.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈti.ɡo]

Verb

tigo

  1. (intransitive) to stay behind

References
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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