See also: Sango, Sängö, Ṣango, and ŝanĝo

English

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Etymology 1

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Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced "sangwich") + -o (colloquialising suffix). Australian from 1940s.

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Noun

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sango (plural sangos or sangoes)

  1. (dated, Australia, informal, colloquial) A sandwich. [From 1940s.]
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Now more common is sanger.

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References

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  • Macquarie Slang Dictionary lists sanger, with sango under “also”.

Etymology 2

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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sango (plural sangos)

  1. (UK) A rudimentary wooden bridge in India.
    • 1824, Alexander Gerard, Journal of an Excursion through the Himalayah Mountains, from Shipke to the Frontiers of Chinese Tartary, David Brewster (editor), The Edinburgh Journal of Science, Volume 1: April—October, page 219,
      We crossed it and another stream a little above their union by a couple of bad sangos, and ascended from its bed by a rocky footpath, winding amongst extensive forests of oak, yew, pine, and horse chesnut, to Camp.
    • 1865, Henry Astbury Leveson, The Hunting Grounds of the Old World, page 459:
      Four large mountain torrents, the Dangalee, Dubrane, Loarnad, and Rindee Gadh, join the Ganges from the left bank, and have to be crossed by sangos.

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Bikol Central

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Philippine *saŋu.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsaŋo/ [ˈsa.ŋo]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: sa‧ngo

Noun

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sángo (Basahan spelling ᜐᜅᜓ)

  1. odor; smell; whiff
    Synonyms: parong, amyo

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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From French sang and Italian sangue, from Latin sanguī̆s.

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sango (uncountable, accusative sangon)

  1. blood
    Ĝi estis terura vidaĵo; sango kovris la tutan muron.
    It was a terrible sight; blood covered the entire wall.

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French

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sango m (plural sangos)

  1. Sango

Etymology

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From Esperanto sango, from French sang, Italian sangue, Spanish sangre, ultimately from Latin sanguis.

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sango (uncountable)

  1. blood

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Japanese

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Romanization

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sango

  1. Rōmaji transcription of さんご

Neapolitan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin sanguem.

Pronunciation

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  • (Naples) IPA(key): [ˈsaŋɡə]
  • (Castelmezzano) IPA(key): [ˈsaŋk]

Noun

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sango m (plural sanghe)

  1. blood

References

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  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 88: “il sangue” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “sango”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano

Ternate

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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sango (Jawi ساڠو)

  1. (intransitive) to answer, reply
    Synonym: fadu

Conjugation

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Conjugation of sango
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st tosango fosango misango
2nd nosango nisango
3rd Masculine osango isango, yosango
Feminine mosango
Neuter isango
- archaic

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  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

West Makian

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Etymology

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Cognate with, if not from, Ternate sango.

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Verb

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sango

  1. (intransitive) to answer

Conjugation

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Conjugation of sango (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tasango masango asango
2nd person nasango fasango
3rd person inanimate isango dasango
animate
imperative nasango, sango fasango, sango

References

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics