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Togo

//ˈtoʊɡoʊ// name, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  3. 3
    A surname.
Verb
  1. 1
    To go different ways; go asunder; diverge; split; part; differ. intransitive, obsolete
  2. 2
    To scatter. intransitive, obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Togoville, from Ewe to (“to pound”) + go (“shore”).

Etymology 2

After Japanese admiral Tōgō Heihachirō.

Etymology 3

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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