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