tigo

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree

substrate?

Latin tībia

Old French tige

French tigebor.

Esperanto tigo

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɡo/

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• Rhymes: -iɡo
• Syllabification: ti‧go

Noun

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

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

Further reading

• “tigo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “tigo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Minangkabau

Minangkabau cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tigo     Ordinal : katigo

Etymology

Compare Indonesian tiga, Malay tiga.

Numeral

tigo

1. three

Ternate

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈti.ɡo]

Verb

tigo

1. (intransitive) for one's joints to ache

Conjugation

Conjugation of tigo

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		totigo	fotigo	mitigo
2nd person		notigo	nitigo
3rd person	masculine	otigo	itigo yotigo (archaic)
	feminine	motigo
	neuter	itigo

Etymology 2

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