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zi-zo-go · W107

zizogo · go-role in biological coupling · ⏳

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Domain biology / reproduction
Class role / biological attribute
Type compound
Register technical / biological
First use pending corpus attestation

Composition

zi-zo (biological coupling event, W106) + go (cause/origin) — the participant occupying the origin/mobile-contribution role within the coupling. Head-final: go specifies which of the two symmetric roles this participant occupies.

Definition

the go-role participant in a biological coupling event; the party whose gametic contribution is the mobile, outward-traveling, origin-of-motion type; male in the biological gamete-asymmetry sense.

Notes

This is a biological role description, not a social category. It says nothing about anatomy beyond gametic contribution type. The definition anchors to anisogamy (gamete-size asymmetry), which is the most taxonomically consistent definition of biological sex across sexually reproducing organisms. Sex-neutral social identity: kinship vocabulary (W076–W081) is deliberately sex-neutral. zi-zo-go is a biological/scientific register term, not a social one. A Tonesu speaker reporting biological observations uses this; a speaker describing kin relationships does not need it. Complementary pair: zi-zo-du (W108) is the du-role participant. The two forms are mutually exclusive within a given zi-zo event, and together they exhaust the participant roles. Isomorphism note: the go/du distinction here mirrors the go/du distinction in zo-ne-go (parent) and zo-ne-du (child): in both cases go = source/origin, du = result/destination. The parallelism is not accidental — both compress the same causal-role logic into the kin/biology domain.

zi-zo (W106), zi-zo-du (W108), go (primitive: cause/origin)

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