engo

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)

1. 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

1. Rōmaji transcription of えんご

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *ngò (“leopard”). Cognate with Rwanda-Rundi ingwe, Lingala nkɔi and Zulu íngwe.

• IPA^(key): /éːnɡo/
• Rhymes: -éːnɡo
• Hyphenation: e‧ngo

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

1. leopard, member of the species Panthera pardus

   Hyponym: entale (“lion”)

• 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