DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English NGO (1991).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ɛnɡeo/, [ɛnɡ̊eˈoˀ]

NounEdit

ngo c (singular definite ngo'en, plural indefinite ngo'er)

  1. NGO, non-governmental organization

InflectionEdit

See alsoEdit

JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

ngo

  1. Rōmaji transcription of こ゚
  2. Rōmaji transcription of コ゚

KikuyuEdit

EtymologyEdit

Hinde (1904) records ngo as an equivalent of English shield in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba ningau and Swahili ngao as its equivalents.[1]

PronunciationEdit

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a monosyllabic stem, together with mũri, and so on.

NounEdit

ngo class 9/10 (plural ngo)

  1. shield

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904) Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pages 52–3
  2. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.

LashiEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa-j ~ ka. Cognates include Tibetan (nga) and Burmese ငါ (nga).

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

ngo

  1. I

Alternative formsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[2], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 40

Ngbaka Ma'boEdit

NounEdit

ngó

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (2002, →ISBN

NyishiEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Tani *ŋoː, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

ngo

  1. I, me (first-person singular personal pronoun)

DeclensionEdit

NOM ngo
ACC ngam
DAT ngam
ABL ngagaloke
ALL ngagabe
COM ngalegabe
POS nga

ReferencesEdit