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higo

Japanese

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Romanization

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higo

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ひご

Kikuyu

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Etymology

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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]

Pronunciation

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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)

Noun

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higo class 9/10 (plural higo)

  1. kidney

References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 34–35. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.

Spanish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈiɡo/ [ˈi.ɣ̞o]
  • Rhymes: -iɡo
  • Syllabification: hi‧go

Noun

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higo m (plural higos)

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

Derived terms

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Descendants

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

See also

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Further reading

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Veps

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Etymology

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Derived from Proto-Finnic *hiki.

Noun

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higo

  1. sweat, perspiration

Inflection

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Inflection of higo (inflection type 1/ilo)
nominative sing. higo
genitive sing. higon
partitive sing. higod
partitive plur. higoid
singular plural
nominative higo higod
accusative higon higod
genitive higon higoiden
partitive higod higoid
essive-instructive higon higoin
translative higoks higoikš
inessive higos higoiš
elative higospäi higoišpäi
illative higoho higoihe
adessive higol higoil
ablative higolpäi higoilpäi
allative higole higoile
abessive higota higoita
comitative higonke higoidenke
prolative higodme higoidme
approximative I higonno higoidenno
approximative II higonnoks higoidennoks
egressive higonnopäi higoidennopäi
terminative I higohosai higoihesai
terminative II higolesai higoilesai
terminative III higossai —
additive I higohopäi higoihepäi
additive II higolepäi higoilepäi

References

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  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “пот”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
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