ungo

• (nonstandard) ongo

• Hyphenation: u‧ngo
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔuŋoʔ/ [ˈʔu.ŋoʔ]

ungò

1. (folklore) witchlike or vampirelike creature or monster
2. (by extension) ghost

ungò

1. to be the prey or victim to this creature
2. (of an ungo) to hunt or attack prey
3. to be addicted to something
4. to become; to cause to become or to turn into an ungo
5. to be haunted by a ghost

• balbal, ekek, kikik, wakwak

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ungo.

• guno, nuog

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Borrowed from Latin unguis.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈunɡo]
• Rhymes: -unɡo
• Hyphenation: un‧go

ungo (accusative singular ungon, plural ungoj, accusative plural ungojn)

1. (anatomy) nail, claw

• ungego

ungo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ungere

• ugno, ugnò

• unguō

From earlier unguō, from Proto-Italic *ongʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).

Cognates include Sanskrit अनक्ति (anakti, “to oil, anoint”), Sanskrit अञ्जस् (áñjas, “ointment, unguent”),^[1] Old Armenian օծ (ōc) and Proto-Germanic *ankwô.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈun.ɡoː/, [ˈʊŋɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈun.ɡo/, [ˈuŋɡo]

ungō (present infinitive ungere, perfect active ūnxī, supine ūnctum); third conjugation

1. to anoint, smear with oil, oil, grease

   Synonyms: dēlibuō, unguentō, inunguō

• unguentārius
• unguentātus
• unguentō
• unguinōsus

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: ungu, aungu, ung, undziri
  • Istro-Romanian: ungu
  • Megleno-Romanian: ung, unziri
  • Romanian: unge, ungere
  • → Albanian: ngjyej
• Dalmatian:
  • jongar
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: ungere

    Central dialects: ógne, ógna

    Tuscan: ógnare, úgne, unge

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: unghere, úngiri
  • Sicilian: ùnciri
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: onzi, ongi (alternative orthography)
  • Ladin: onjer, onje
  • Lombard: ongg, vongg, vonz, vonze
  • Piedmontese: onze, onz, vonze, ogne, vogne
  • Venetan: onzer, onxer, ondher, onzar
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: ouendre
  • Occitan: ónher (multiple dialects)

    Auvergnat: ónjer, onjir

    Gascon: únher

    Languedocien: únher

    Limousin: ónger

  • Old French: oindre
    • French: oindre
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturleonese:

    Asturian: xuncir, xuncer, xoncer

    Leonese: uñir, xunir, uncir

    Salamanca: juñir

  • Old Galician-Portuguese: ungir, ongir
    • Galician: unxir, onxir, xuncir, xunguir
    • Portuguese: ungir
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: ungir
  • → Spanish: ungir
  • → Old Irish: oingid
    • Irish: ung

• “ungo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ungo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ungo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ŭnguĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 36

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ungo (u class, plural nyungo)

1. winnower (fan for winnowing)