ngo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ngo"

Akan

Pronunciation

Tone: LH

Noun

ngo

palm oil

References

^ Kotey, Paul A. (1998). Twi-English/English-Twi Dictionary. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

Christaller, Johann Gottlieb (1881) “e̱-kye̱w”, in A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi (Chwee, Tw̌i)‎, Basel, page 347

Danish

Etymology

From English NGO (1991).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛnɡeo/,

Noun

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

NGO, non-governmental organization

Inflection

Declension of ngo

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ngo	ngo'en	ngo'er	ngo'erne
genitive	ngo's	ngo'ens	ngo'ers	ngo'ernes

Japanese

Romanization

ngo

Rōmaji transcription of こ゚
Rōmaji transcription of コ゚

Kikuyu

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ᵑɡɔ̀(ꜜ)/

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

(Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.

Noun

ngo class 9/10 (plural ngo)

shield

References

^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904) Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pages 52–3
^ 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.