תיקו

Hebrew

Etymology

Borrowed from Jewish Babylonian Aramaic תיקו‎ (literally “let it stand”), used to indicate that a question remains undecided, apocopic form of earlier Aramaic תְּקוּם‎ (təqūm), third-person singular feminine future tense of קָם‎ (qām, “to rise, to stand”), cognate with Hebrew קָם‎ (qām, “to rise”).

Noun

תֵּיקוּ • (téku) ?

  1. tie, draw
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