ongo

Etymology

From on- + go.

verb

  1. To be ongoing (occurring, happening); to last, proceed or continue.
    And it ongoes far longer than Bill had intended. 1981, Colin Fletcher, The Man from the Cave, page 164
    we made way through town the main street blocked by broken houses and a smashed water main and stopping tried get policeman shoot a wounded horse but owner thought was still possibly worth saveing and onwent up toward mountain pass that leads to little catalan city of falset para 1987, The Hemingway Review - Volume 7, page 103
    In two other senses, however, the astrophysical creation story ongoes still: 1996, David Rosenberg, Communion: Contemporary Writers Reveal the Bible in Their Lives
    The discussion of the appropriateness of using the finite verb forms in examples (28) and (29) shows that the lexicalization process continues (or indeed “ongoes”), and it also gives some indication as to how the introduction process actually works in CMC. 2013, Hilde Hasselgård, Jarle Ebeling, Signe Oksefjell Ebeling, Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis, page 233

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