Etymograph

English

Nago

Nago comes from Ewe Anagó ‘a Yoruba’, and goes back to Yoruba Ànàgó.

  1. YorubamodernÀnàgó‘Yoruba from Abeokuta Province, Nigeria’
  2. EwemodernAnagó‘a Yoruba’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2007Nago

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. YorubamodernÀnàgó‘Yoruba from Abeokuta Province, Nigeria’
  2. EwemodernAnagó‘a Yoruba’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2007Nago

Earliest quotation: 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook: “The Nago and Petwo lwa are honored with Florida…”

Every English word from Yoruba Ànàgó

Today it means

noun A member of a Yoruba people living in coastal regions of modern-day Benin and Nigeria, especially one taken to the Caribbean or South America as a slave.

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