hego

• hegal (Etymology 2)

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /heɡo/ [he.ɣ̞o]
• IPA^(key): (Southern) /eɡo/ [e.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -eɡo
• Hyphenation: he‧go

Perhaps from Occitan eigau (“south wind bringing rain”), from Latin aquālem (“watery”), from aqua (“water”).

hego inan

1. south
2. south wind

(compass points) puntu kardinalak;

ipar-mendebal ipar-sartalde	ipar	ipar-ekialde ipar-sortalde
mendebal sartalde		ekialde sortalde
hego-mendebal hego-sartalde	hego	hego-ekialde hego-sortalde

There are two possibilities:

• Hego is a variant of hegal. Unlikely, since the change al>o is not attested anywhere else in the language (the word eusko is an artificial and arbitrary alteration of euskal created by Sabino Arana).

• Hego is the original form, hegal being a compound with an obscure second element. More likely and phonetically impeccable, and also accounts for hegaz and hegats, though a final element -l is otherwise unattested.

hego inan

1. wing
2. fin

• “hego”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “hego”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• Etymological Dictionary of Basque

• hejo

Borrowed from English hedge, French haie, German Hecke and Gehege. Decision no. 157, Progreso III.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhe.ɡo/

hego (plural hegi)

1. hedge, hedgerow

• hegizar (“to hedge, hedge in”)
• hego-rozo (“dog rose”)
• hego-roziero (“sweetbrier, eglantine”)

• Progreso II (in Ido), 1909–1910, page 709
• Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 530
• Progreso IV (in Ido), 1911–1912, page 204