togan

togan

1. genitive singular of toga

• Tonga, tango, tonga

togán (plural togán lẹ) (Nigeria)

1. president

From tō- +‎ gān. Cognate with Old High German zigān (German zergehen).

• IPA^(key): /toːˈɡɑːn/

tōgān

1. (of living things) to go in different directions, part, separate; go asunder
2. (of material things) to be sundered, part
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Þā cwæð sē Ælmihtiġa tō Moysen, "Āstreċe ðīne hand ofer ðā sǣ, and tōdǣl hī." And Moyses ðā slōh þǣre sǣ ofer mid his ġyrde, and sēo sǣ tōēode on twā, and eal þæt Israhela folc ēode ofer ðā sǣ bē drīum grunde, and þæt wæter stōd him on twā healfa swilċe ōðer stānweall.

     Then the Almighty said to Moses: "Stretch forth thy hand over the sea, and divide it." And then Moses struck the sea with his staff, and the sea divided in two, and all the Israelites crossed over the sea on dry ground, and the water stood in two halves like stone walls.

3. to disperse, go away, go in many directions

• Middle English: togon
  • English: togo

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “tógán”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From toga +‎ -an.

togan f

1. drawing, pulling

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “togan”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

togan

1. only used in se togan, third-person plural present indicative of togarse