tegu
See also: tégu
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom teguexin, from Nahuatl tecoixin (“lizard”).
Noun
edittegu (plural tegus)
- Any of the South American lizards of the families Teiidae and Gymnophthalmidae.
- especially any of genus Tupinambis, which is sometimes kept as a pet.
Synonyms
edit- salipenter (Guyana), jacuaru
Derived terms
edit- Argentine black and white tegu (Salvator merianae)
- Argentine giant tegu (Salvator merianae)
- Argentine red tegu (Salvator rufescens)
- Argentine tegu
- black and white tegu (Salvator merianae)
- black and yellow tegu
- black tegu (Tupinambis teguixin)
- Colombian black and white tegu (Tupinambis teguixin)
- common tegu (Tupinambis teguixin)
- gold tegu, golden tegu (Tupinambis teguixin)
- huge tegu (Salvator merianae)
- red tegu (Salvator rufescens)
- yellow tegu (Salvator duseni)
Translations
editlizard of the genus Tupinambis
Further reading
edit- Tupinambis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Tupinambis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Esperanto
editVerb
edittegu
- imperative of tegi
Estonian
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Finnic *teko.
Noun
edittegu (genitive teo, partitive tegu)
Declension
editDeclension of tegu (type nägu)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | tegu | teod |
genitive | teo | tegude |
partitive | tegu | tegusid |
illative | tekku / teosse | tegudesse |
inessive | teos | tegudes |
elative | teost | tegudest |
allative | teole | tegudele |
adessive | teol | tegudel |
ablative | teolt | tegudelt |
translative | teoks | tegudeks |
terminative | teoni | tegudeni |
essive | teona | tegudena |
abessive | teota | tegudeta |
comitative | teoga | tegudega |
Lithuanian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom an earlier te-gùl < te-gùli, from tè (“let, may”) + the 3rd person singular present indicative form of gulė́ti (“to lie”), literally "let (it) lie".[1]
Pronunciation
editParticle
edittegù
References
edit- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “tegù”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, pages 664-5
Livonian
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Finnic *teko.
Noun
edittegu
- (Salaca) deed
Portuguese
editPronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: te‧gu
Noun
edittegu m (plural tegus)
- Alternative form of teiú
Swahili
editPronunciation
editNoun
editCategories:
- English terms derived from Nahuatl
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Lacertoid lizards
- Esperanto non-lemma forms
- Esperanto verb forms
- Estonian terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Estonian terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian nouns
- Estonian nägu-type nominals
- Lithuanian lemmas
- Lithuanian particles
- Livonian terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Livonian terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Livonian lemmas
- Livonian nouns
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Swahili terms with audio links
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili nouns
- Swahili ma class nouns