higo

higo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ひご

From Proto-Bantu *mpígò. Hinde (1904) records higo as an equivalent of English kidney in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Swahili figo etc. as its equivalents.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /hìɣɔ́ꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.^[2]

higo class 9/10 (plural higo)

1. kidney

Inherited from Old Spanish figo, from Latin fīcus (“fig, fig tree”). Cognate with English fig.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiɡo/
• Rhymes: -iɡo
• Syllabification: hi‧go

higo m (plural higos)

1. fig (fruit)
2. (colloquial) snatch, pussy (vagina)

• → Classical Nahuatl: hīcox, īcox (alternative spelling)

• breva

• “higo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Derived from Proto-Finnic *hiki.

higo

1. sweat, perspiration

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “пот”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika