engo

See also: eNGO, ENGO, and -engo

Galician

Attested since the 15th century. From local Vulgar Latin educus, probably from Hispano-Celtic *ĕdŭcos equivalent to Gaulish odocos (“dwarf elder”) with assumed contamination from Latin ebulum. Cognate of Portuguese engos and of Spanish yezgo (“dwarf elder”).

engo m (plural engos)

dwarf elder (Sambucus ebulus)
Synonym: sabugueiriño
- 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 143:
  filla o çumo dos allos et das cebollas et do engu, que semella sebugo
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “engu”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “engo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “yezgo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

engo

engo class 9 (plural engo class 10, augmentless ngo, plural augmentless ngo)

Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 31
Rubongoya, L. T. (2013) Katondogorozi y'Orunyoro-Rutooro n'Orungereza [Runyoro–Rutooro-English and English-Runyoro–Rutooro dictionary]‎^[2], Kampala: Modrug Publishers, →ISBN, page 280
Entry 1408 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3