Collection of popular sayings
"Gaudencio Ongay"
Alejandro Sánchez Ongay
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Author: Alejandro Sánchez Ongay
Title: Collection of popular sayings “Gaudencio Ongay”
Subtitle: Compilation of paremias
Prologue: Mónica Aznárez Mauleón
Collection: Vocabulario navarro 2 / Dictionary of Navarre 2
Collection coordinator: Alfredo Asiáin Ansorena
Cover and edition: Ekine Delgado Zugarrondo
Edited by: Cátedra del patrimonio immaterial de Navarra / Chair of intangible heritage of Navarre
ISBN: 978-84-09-46058-8
Place: Pamplona – Iruña, 2023
The work is a collection of popular proverbs, transcribed and completed by Alejandro Sánchez Ongay, who continued the work started by his uncle Gaudencio Ongay. Gaudencio collected some one hundred and thirty-seven thousand proverbs, of which 2,141 proverbs are Navarrese paremias, which will be published in a future work.
Collection of popular sayings "Gaudencio Ongay"
It is a collection of popular proverbs that Gaudencio Ongay began and continued by Alejandro Sánchez Ongay, his nephew, who promised to continue working on the collection. At that time it was estimated that it consisted of one hundred and thirty-seven thousand proverbs. They are collected in alphabetical order according to the initial letter. Although many are similar, with small variations, all versions have been recorded. Alejandro Sánchez has done the work mainly of transcribing the cards he received in 2002. Each card contained a saying. Not all of them have references or comments, so, for this edition, they have been deleted and can be consulted in the documentation center, where the data will be completed. The tokens of the first letters are not preserved, as they were transcribed into sheets by Gaudencio Ongay himself.
In addition to the transcription, Alejandro Sánchez Ongay has prepared a document with words and expressions, as well as Latin maxims that appear in the comments and notes. He has also written several annexes with paremias that do not appear in the collection. If you have added any proverbs to the initial collection, you indicate it with the word “added.” In the case of the Navarrese proverb, 2,141 have been located, of which 492 do not appear in the collection.
He has prepared a bibliography with the books that served as a basis for Gaudencio Ongay, he has included a few more references, but he has not searched or compared or contrasted the proverbs with other sources.
A more detailed description can be found in the book presentation.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alejandro Sánchez Ongay
He was born in Beire (Navarra) on September 21, 1957. At the age of 23 he took his first two Theology courses at the Pontifical University of Salamanca. In 1994 he graduated in Law. And in 1997 he completed his studies as a Middle Level Technician in Secretariat.
His professional life has been linked to local administration. In 1982 he worked for a few months as an official at the Valtierra City Council as an administrative assistant. He then obtained a position as an Administrative Officer at the Tudela City Council, where he worked until 1994. While working, he combined his work with his studies in Law at the UNED and with those of Secretary.
Once he finished his studies, he worked in different positions at the Tudela City Council (Law Degree with a destination in Urban Planning, Legal Advisor and Secretary) until his retirement.
He has been a teacher - tutor in the subject of “Basic Notions of Law” of the Access Course for people over 25 years of age, at the Milagro Extension of the UNED.
He currently lives in Olite, has two children and is retired. His hobbies are sports (he has a 1st Dan black belt in Kyokushinkai karate), reading and guitar (he is part of the Olite Guitar Group).
ABOUT THE COLLECTOR
GAUDENCIO Ongay ZorozA (1924-2002)
He was born in Ujué / Uxue on February 12, 1924. Fourth child of Emilio Ongay and Francisca Zoroza. Due to family needs, the Ongay-Zoroza family moves to live in Beire. Given the environment prior to the civil war, they returned to Ujué / Uxue, where they resided for seven years. As a young man he entered the seminary and studied ecclesiastical studies. He abandons religious life and marries Etelvina. They will have a daughter: Lourdes. He began working in the Olite sawmill, as a clerk and accountant. He subsequently acquired the status of official of the Ministry of Labor, from which he would be transferred to the Navarro Institute of Occupational Health.
From his time at the seminary he retains his love for calligraphy in English letters, which is combined with great skill in drawing. Hand-copied and illustrated Don Quixote twice. He also becomes a great collector, especially of proverbs. He buys more than a hundred books related to the proverb, and he would invent and number them. Alejandro Sánchez Ongay, his nephew, has recorded practically all of these sources in this edition. His hobby as an amanuensis makes him order and copy the proverbs from those books one by one, but also – and this is the most interesting thing – to include new paremias, many coming from the oral tradition. With immeasurable patience and tenacity, he assembled this enormous collection throughout his life. This unprecedented passion led him to collect, in his own words, “more than 100,000 Castilian proverbs.”
He died in Pamplona on June 16, 2002 at the age of 78.
A huge compilation: download by letters
Given the volume of the work, the consultation and free download have been prepared by letters, as if they were different volumes. You can also use the documentation center search engine. Little by little the linguistic study of each paremia will be completed.
