gá
Hungarian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editAn onomatopoeia.
Pronunciation
editInterjection
editgá
- honk (representation of the sound of a goose)
- 1954, Lőrinc Szabó, Falusi hangverseny (Village concert)[1], archived from the original on 19 October 2018:
- Gá! Gá! Gá! / Szalad világgá / Liba mama, ha a Csacsi / rábőg, hogy I-á!
- Honk! Honk! Honk! / Running far away / mama Goose, when the Donkey / brays at her Hee-haw!
Icelandic
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Old Norse gá, from Proto-Germanic *ganhāną.
Verb
editgá (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gáði, supine gáð)
- (intransitive) to look, to see, to check
Conjugation
editThis verb needs an inflection-table template.
Etymology 2
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Looks like a nominal of Etymology 1.”)
Noun
editgá f (genitive singular gár, no plural)
Declension
editDerived terms
editEtymology 3
editOf onomatopoeic origin.
Noun
editgá f (genitive singular gár, no plural)
Declension
editIrish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Irish gád (“danger, need”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgá m (genitive singular gá)
- need, requirement
- Ní gá duit imeacht.
- You don’t need to go; you don’t have to go.
- Ní gá dom glaoch orthu.
- I don’t need to call them.
Declension
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Synonyms
edit- (need): feidhm, gátar, riachtanas
Mutation
editradical | lenition | eclipsis |
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gá | ghá | ngá |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gád”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “gáḃaḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 342
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 55
Mandarin
editAlternative forms
editRomanization
edit- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 尜
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 軋 / 轧
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 釒 / 钅
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 錷
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 钄
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 噶
Old Norse
editEtymology 1
editVerbal noun of geyja (“to bark”).
Noun
editgá f
Declension
editDerived terms
edit- goðgá (“blasphemy”, literally “god-scoffing”)
References
edit- gá in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
Etymology 2
editFrom Proto-Germanic *ganhāną.
Noun
editgá f
Usage notes
editOften in compounds, such as úgá or gáleysi
Verb
editgá (singular past indicative gáði, plural past indicative gáðu, past participle gát)
- to heed
- (with infinitive) (about verbs)
- (with genitive) (about nouns)
- guðs hann gáði
- he gave heed to God
- gá sín
- to take care of oneself
- glýja þú né gáðir
- thou hadst no mind for joy
Conjugation
editinfinitive | gá | |
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present participle | gándi, gáandi | |
past participle | gáðr | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | gái | gáða |
2nd-person singular | gáir | gáðir |
3rd-person singular | gáir | gáði |
1st-person plural | gám | gáðum |
2nd-person plural | gáið | gáðuð |
3rd-person plural | gá | gáðu |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | gá | gæða |
2nd-person singular | gáir | gæðir |
3rd-person singular | gái | gæði |
1st-person plural | gáim | gæðim |
2nd-person plural | gáið | gæðið |
3rd-person plural | gái | gæði |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | gá | |
1st-person plural | gám | |
2nd-person plural | gáið |
infinitive | gásk | |
---|---|---|
present participle | gándisk, gáandisk | |
past participle | gázk | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | gámk | gáðumk |
2nd-person singular | gáisk | gáðisk |
3rd-person singular | gáisk | gáðisk |
1st-person plural | gámsk | gáðumsk |
2nd-person plural | gáizk | gáðuzk |
3rd-person plural | gásk | gáðusk |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | gámk | gæðumk |
2nd-person singular | gáisk | gæðisk |
3rd-person singular | gáisk | gæðisk |
1st-person plural | gáimsk | gæðimsk |
2nd-person plural | gáizk | gæðizk |
3rd-person plural | gáisk | gæðisk |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | gásk | |
1st-person plural | gámsk | |
2nd-person plural | gáizk |
Descendants
editReferences
edit- J.Fritzners ordbok over Det gamle norske sprog, dvs. norrøn ordbok ("J.Fritnzer's dictionary of the old Norwegian language, i.e. Old Norse dictionary"), on gá.
- gá in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
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