tigo
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Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from French tige (“stem, stalk”). Doublet of tibio.
Pronunciation
Noun
tigo (accusative singular tigon, plural tigoj, accusative plural tigojn)
Minangkabau
| < 2 | 3 | 4 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : tigo Ordinal : katigo | ||
Etymology
Compare Indonesian tiga, Malay tiga.
Numeral
tigo
Ternate
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Verb
tigo
- (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 | ||||
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
tigo
- (intransitive) to choke
- (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
Verb
tigo
- (intransitive) to stay behind
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh