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gau

See also: Gau, GAU, gấu, gâu, gáu, and ǁgau

English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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gau (plural gaus)

  1. (Tibetan Buddhism) A prayer box or small container worn as jewelry and containing an amulet or similar item.

Etymology 2

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From either Hokkien 厚 (kāu, “thick”) or Teochew 厚 (gao6, “thick”), influenced in spelling by Mandarin Pinyin.

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gau (not comparable)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial, of coffee) Strong (used as a modifier after kopi (“coffee”)).
    Kopi Gau ― Strong coffee with sugar and condensed milk
  2. (Singapore, colloquial, more generally, less common) Thick; having a strong or overwhelming flavour.
    • 2019 August 24, Yeo Boon Ping, quoting Zachary Tang, “If Zi Char Dishes Were In A Battle Royale, Which Would Come Out Tops?”, in ricemedia.co‎[3], archived from the original on 12 July 2024:
      But for all the eggs and liao (ingredients) you have, it isn’t gao (strong).
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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gau

  1. Alternative form of jow (“pre-metric unit of length in India”)

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Basque

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Unknown.

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Noun

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gau inan

  1. night

Declension

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Declension of gau (inanimate, ending in vowel)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive gau gaua gauak
ergative gauk gauak gauek
dative gauri gauari gauei
genitive gauren gauaren gauen
comitative gaurekin gauarekin gauekin
causative gaurengatik gauarengatik gauengatik
benefactive gaurentzat gauarentzat gauentzat
instrumental gauez gauaz gauez
inessive gautan gauean gauetan
locative gautako gaueko gauetako
allative gautara gauera gauetara
terminative gautaraino gaueraino gauetaraino
directive gautarantz gauerantz gauetarantz
destinative gautarako gauerako gauetarako
ablative gautatik gauetik gauetatik
partitive gaurik — —
prolative gautzat — —

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French

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gau m (plural gaux)

  1. (slang) louse

Kalo Finnish Romani

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gau m (nominative plural gaave)

  1. village[1]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kimmo Granqvist (2002) “Finnish Romani Phonology and Dialect Geography”, in SKY Journal of Linguistics‎[1], volume 15, Linguistic Association of Finland, archived from the original on January 28, 2022, pages 61-83
  2. ^ Kimmo Granqvist (2011) “Diftongit ja vokaaliyhtymät”, in Lyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi [Consice grammar of Finnish Romani]‎[2] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland, →ISBN, →ISSN, retrieved February 10, 2022, page 5

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  • Kimmo Granqvist (2011) “Eräitä keskeisiä äännevaihteluja”, in Lyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi [Consice grammar of Finnish Romani]‎[4] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland, →ISBN, →ISSN, retrieved February 10, 2022, page 12

Lashi

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Lashi cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : gau

Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d/s-kəw. Cognates include Nuosu ꈬ (ggu) and Burmese ကိုး (kui:).

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Numeral

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gau

  1. nine

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  • Mark Wannemacher (2011) A phonological overview of the Lacid language‎[5], Chiang Mai: Payap University.

Latin

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Etymology

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Poetic clipping of gaudium. Attributed to Ennius (circa 200 BCE) by the poet Ausonius in his catalogue of monosyllabic Latin words, never attested directly.

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gau n (indeclinable) (archaic, poetic, hapax)

  1. Clipping of gaudium (“joy”).
    • c. 310 CE – c. 395 CE, Ausonius, Technopaegnion 144:
      Ennius ut memorat, repleat te laetificum gau.
      As Ennius says, may gladdening joy fill you.

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Indeclinable noun.

singular plural
nominative gau gau
genitive gau gau
dative gau gau
accusative gau gau
ablative gau gau
vocative gau gau

References

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  • “gau”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • gau in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “gau” in volume 6, part 2, column 1701, line 34 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

Low German

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudden, quick”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Dutch gauw (“quickly”), German jäh (“sudden, abrupt”). More at gay.

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gau

  1. quick

Niuean

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gau

  1. chew

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse gauð.

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gau n (definite singular gauet, indefinite plural gau, definite plural gaua)

  1. a bark
  2. (collective) barking
  3. noise

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Saterland Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian gā, from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz. More at gay.

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gau

  1. quickly; swiftly
  2. soon; at once

Welsh

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Celtic *gāwā (“falsehood, lie”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeH₂u- (“to be faulty, at fault, lacking”). Cognate with Cornish gow, Breton gaou; outside of Celtic, compare Latin haud (“scarcely, hardly”), Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬎 (gau, “to commit a sin; to promote”).

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gau (feminine singular gau, plural geuon, equative geued, comparative geuach, superlative geuaf)

  1. false, fake
    Synonym: ffals
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Mutation

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Mutated forms of gau
radical soft nasal aspirate
gau au ngau unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Etymology 2

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Mutated form of cau (“to close”).

Verb

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gau

  1. Soft mutation of cau.

Mutation

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Mutated forms of cau
radical soft nasal aspirate
cau gau nghau chau

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gau”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 154
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 95

West Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian gā, from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz.

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gau

  1. quickly
    Synonym: rap
  2. soon

Further reading

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  • “gau (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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