ago

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ago"

Translingual

Symbol

ago

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tainae.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tainae terms

English

Alternative forms

• agoe, agon, agone, ygo, ygoe (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ago, agon (“passed”), past participle of agon (“to depart, escape, pass”), from Old English āgān (“to go away, pass away, go forth, come to pass”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”), *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to a- +‎ gone, and by surface analysis, a- +‎ go. Cognate with German ergehen (“to come to pass, fare, go forth”). Compare also Old Saxon āgangan (“to go or pass by”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (usgaggan, “to go forth”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: ə-gō', IPA^(key): /əˈɡoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ə-gō', IPA^(key): /əˈɡəʊ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊ

Postposition

ago

1. Before now, before the present time

   I got married ten years ago.

   • 2013 August 10, “Damned if you don’t”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     Two years ago a pair of scientists sparked fears of a devastating virus.

   When they first met in 2000, my dad told my mom how he had gotten the money. The story begins 20 years ago.

   It was two weeks ago that I saw her last.

Derived terms

• four score and seven years ago
• long ago
• long long ago
• many moons ago
• three days ago
• two years ago

Translations

past; gone by; since

Albanian: parë (sq) Arabic: قَبْلَ (ar) (qabla) Egyptian Arabic: من (men) Armenian: առաջ (hy) (aṙaǰ) Asturian: hai (ast) Azerbaijani: əvvəl (az), qabaq (az), bundan əvvəl, bundan qabaq Bashkir: элек (elek) Basque: orain dela, duela Belarusian: таму́ (tamú) Bulgarian: преди́ (bg) (predí) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: fa (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 之前 (zi1 cin4) Mandarin: 以前 (zh) (yǐqián), 之前 (zh) (zhīqián) Cornish: nans yw Czech: před (cs) (used before the time) Danish: for ... siden Dutch: geleden (nl) Esperanto: antaŭ (eo) Estonian: tagasi (et) Finnish: sitten (fi) French: il y a (fr) (used before the time) Galician: fai Georgian: წინათ (c̣inat) German: vor (de) (used before the time) Greek: πριν (el) (prin) Haitian Creole: de sa Hebrew: לִפְנֵי (he) (lif'néi) Hindi: पहले (hi) (pahle), बहुत पहले (bahut pahle) Hungarian: (after the time) -val/-vel ezelőtt (e.g. egy órával ezelőtt: one hour ago), -a/-e/-ja/-je (e.g. egy órája: one hour ago) Icelandic: fyrir (is) Indonesian: yang lalu Ingrian: takas Irish: ó shin Italian: fa (it) Japanese: 前 (ja) (まえ, mae), 以前に (ja) (いぜんに, izen ni) Khmer: មុន (km) (mʊn) Korean: 전에 (ko) (jeone) Ladino: aze, faze Lao: please add this translation if you can Latin: abhinc (la) Latvian: pirms Malay: lalu (ms), lepas (ms) Malayalam: മുമ്പ് (ml) (mumpŭ) Maltese: ilu Mongolian: өмнө (mn) (ömnö) Norwegian: Bokmål: for ... siden Nynorsk: for ... sidan Occitan: a (oc) Old English: for (used before the time) Persian: پیش (fa) (piš), قبل (fa) (qabl) Polish: (dawno) temu (pl), wcześniej (pl) Portuguese: há (pt), atrás (pt), faz (pt) Romanian: înainte cu, în urmă, acum (ro) Russian: тому́ наза́д (ru) (tomú nazád), наза́д (ru) (nazád) Scots: syne Scottish Gaelic: o chionn, air ais Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: при̏је (Ijekavian), пре̏ (Ekavian) Roman: prȉje (sh) (Ijekavian), prȅ (sh) (Ekavian) Slovak: dozadu Slovene: pred (sl) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: pśed (used before the time) Spanish: hace (es) (used before the time), atrás (es) (used after the time), ha (es) Swedish: för ... sedan Thai: แล้ว (th) (lɛ́ɛo), ก่อน (th) (gɔ̀ɔn), แต่ก่อน (dtɛ̀ɛ-gɔ̀ɔn), ที่แล้ว (tîi-lɛ́ɛo) Tibetan: སྔོན་ལ (sngon la) Turkish: önce (tr) Ukrainian: тому́ (uk) (tomú) Uzbek: oldin (uz) Vietnamese: trước đây (vi) Welsh: yn ôl West Frisian: lyn

Adjective

ago (comparative more ago, superlative most ago)

1. (archaic or dialectal) Gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away.

   in days ago / in days agone

2. (archaic or dialectal) Nearly gone; dead. (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century)

   Woe the day—she is agone!

Usage notes

• Usually follows the noun.

See also

• Preposition and postposition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• G. A. Cooke, The County of Devon
• “ago”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ago”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “ago”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• GAO, oga, G.O.A., G. O. A., AOG, OAG, Gao, goa, OGA, Goa, GOA, Oga

Albanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آغا (ağa) (compare Turkish ağa) or Greek άγιος (ágios).

Noun

ago m

1. (Gheg, archaic, poetic) god

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin agō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡo/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Hyphenation: a‧go

Noun

ago (accusative singular agon, plural agoj, accusative plural agojn)

1. act, action

Synonyms

• (action): agado

Derived terms

• agema
• agi
• agigi

Hanunoo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈɡu/ [ʔaˈɡo]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: a‧go

Interjection

agó (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜤᜳ)

1. an exclamation of surprise

See also

• abaw

Further reading

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953), Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 22

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin agō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡo/

Noun

ago (plural agi)

1. act, action, deed

Synonyms

• (action): agado

Derived terms

• agar
• agema
• agiva

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin acus.

Noun

ago m

1. needle

Italian

Etymology

From earlier *aco, from Latin acus (“needle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). Compare Romanian ac.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Hyphenation: à‧go

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

ago m (plural aghi)

1. needle
   • 1947, Primo Levi, “Storia di dieci giorni”, in Se questo è un uomo [If This Is a Man], Torino: Einaudi, published 1987, →ISBN, page 190:

     Grazie alla mia ormai lunga esperienza delle cose del campo; ero riuscito a portare con me le mie cose personali: una cintura di fili elettrici intrecciati; il cucchiaio-coltello; un ago con tre gugliate; cinque bottoni; e infine, diciotto pietrine per acciarino che avevo rubato in Laboratoria.

     Thanks to my by now long experience with camp-related matters; I was able to bring with me my personal items: a belt made of braided electrical wires; the spoon-knife; a needle with three threads; five buttons; and lastly, eighteen flints for the lighter that I robbed from the Laboratory.

Derived terms

• aghetto, aghino (diminutives)
• ago di pino
• agone (augmentative)

Related terms

• aguglia (“compass needle”)

Anagrams

• goa

Japanese

Romanization

ago

1. Rōmaji transcription of あご

Karipúna Creole French

FWOTD – 26 July 2013

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɡo/

Interjection

ago?

1. may I come in?

Further reading

• Alfred W. Tobler (1987), Dicionário Crioulo Karipúna/Português Português/Crioulo Karípúna (in Karipúna Creole French), Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 43