Togo
name, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To go different ways; go asunder; diverge; split; part; differ. intransitive, obsolete
- 2 To scatter. intransitive, obsolete
- 1 A country in West Africa. Official name: Togolese Republic.
"It was on the plane to Togo, six months earlier, back when Togo was still on the shortlist, before Aimee had offended that tiny nation by suggesting, in an interview, that its government did ‘nothing for their people’."
- 2 A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- 3 A surname.
Example
More examples"Togo is both a country of emigration and asylum."
Etymology
From Togoville, from Ewe to (“to pound”) + go (“shore”).
After Japanese admiral Tōgō Heihachirō.
From Middle English togon, from Old English tōgān (“to go apart”), from Proto-Germanic *tōgāną (“to go apart”), equivalent to to- + go. Cognate with German zergehen. Compare Old English tōgangan (“to go away, pass away”), Old Saxon tegangan.
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