English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From on- + go. Compare West Frisian oangean, Dutch aangaan, German Low German angahn, German angehen, Swedish angå.
Verb
[edit]ongo (third-person singular simple present ongoes, present participle ongoing, simple past onwent, past participle ongone)
- To be ongoing (occurring, happening); to last, proceed or continue.
- 1981, Colin Fletcher, The Man from the Cave, page 164:
- And it ongoes far longer than Bill had intended.
- 1987, The Hemingway Review - Volume 7, page 103:
- 1996, David Rosenberg, Communion: Contemporary Writers Reveal the Bible in Their Lives:
- In two other senses, however, the astrophysical creation story ongoes still:
- 2013, Hilde Hasselgård, Jarle Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell Ebeling, Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis, →ISBN, page 233:
- The discussion of the appropriateness of using the finite verb forms in examples (28) and (29) shows that the lexicalization process continues (or indeed “ongoes”), and it also gives some indication as to how the introduction process actually works in CMC.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to be continuing
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Anagrams
[edit]Cebuano
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: o‧ngo
Noun
[edit]ongo
- nonstandard form of ungo
Lotha Naga
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Central Naga *a-hŋaʔ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋja. Cognate to Chungli Ao ango.
Noun
[edit]ongo
Further reading
[edit]- Murry, K. R.; Yanthan, J. T.; Patton, Alumo (1978), Anglo-Lotha Vocabulary, Wokha, Nagaland: Kyong Academy, page 59
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