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Mingo
Mingo
See also: mingo
English
Proper noun
Mingo
- A polysynthetic language of the Northern Iroquoian language family, once spoken across eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, now spoken fluently by fewer than five fluent people, but in the process of being revitalized.
See also
mingo
mingo
See also: Mingo
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₃mi-n-ǵʰ-, n-infix of *h₃meyǵʰ-. Cognate with Latin mēiō, Ancient Greek ὀμείχω (omeíkhō), Sanskrit मेहति (mehati), Old Norse míga, Tocharian B miśo.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmin.ɡoː/, [ˈmɪŋ.ɡoː]
Verb
mingō (present infinitive mingere, perfect active minxī, supine mictum); third conjugation
- I urinate
Inflection
- The fourth principal part can also be minctum.
Descendants
References
- mingo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mingo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mingo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.