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Clipping of Irish Gaeilge

ga

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Irish.

ga

  1. rain
  • transnewguinea.org, citing both Wilson (1969) and McElhanon and Voorhoeve (1970)
  • James Farr, Robert Larson, A Selective Word List in Ten Different Binandere Languages
  • Papers in New Guinea Linguistics (1971), issues 8-9, pages 80-81, using a wordlist furnished by Capell

ga

  1. (Mpakwithi) mouth

ga

  1. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to poke
  2. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to peel
  • Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 185

From Proto-Nuristani *gāwā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gā́wš, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws.

ga (Sanu)[1]

  1. cow
  1. ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016) “g′â”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎[1]

ga (Thai spelling กงา)

  1. I

ga

  1. and

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ga.

ga

  1. saddle
  • Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung‎[2], Santa Barbara: University of California

ga

  1. inflection of gaan:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative
    4. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive
    ga! ― go!

ga

  1. metal
  2. money

ga

  1. only

ga

  1. but

ga

  1. duck

From French gare.

ga

  1. station, terminal

From Proto-Torres-Banks *ɣaya, an irregular reflex of Proto-Oceanic *kawaʀ, metathesis of *wakaʀ (“root”). Cognate with Mwotlap ga and Lo-Toga gi, and also with Proto-Polynesian *kawa (whence Tongan kava).

ga

  1. kava plant, Piper methysticum
  2. kava, an intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant.

ga

  1. Alternative form of (eng)gak

Apparently a conflation of Old Irish gath,[1] goth (“spear”)[2] with the synonymous gae (“spear”),[3] from Proto-Celtic *gaisos (“spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰays- (“spear”). Cognate with Welsh gwayw and Latin gaesum (a Gaulish loanword) as well as Old English gār.

ga m (genitive singular ga or gaoi, nominative plural gathanna or gaoi or gaoithe)

  1. spear (long stick with a sharp tip), dart
  2. dart, sting
    Chuir an cat a gha ann. ― The cat clawed him.
  3. ray (beam of light or radiation)
  4. (geometry) radius (line segment between any point on the circumference of a circle and its center; length of this segment)
  5. (medicine) suppository
  6. (fishing) gaff
  7. Only used in ga seá
  • Alternative genitive singular: gaoi
  • Alternative plural forms: gaoi, gaoithe
Mutated forms of ga
radical lenition eclipsis
ga gha nga

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

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 goth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ “ga”, in Irish Pronunciation Database, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
  5. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 129
  6. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 11, page 8

ga

  1. The hiragana syllable が (ga) or the katakana syllable ガ (ga) in Hepburn romanization.

ga

  1. earth; land

ga

  1. (Eastern Lombard) there (in the expression of "there be")

ga m or f

  1. (Eastern Lombard) him; her/it (dative case)
  2. (Eastern Lombard) them (dative case)

ga

  1. when
  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “ga”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “ga”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

ga (ga5 / ga0, Zhuyin ˙ㄍㄚ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 價 / 价

ga

  1. Nonstandard spelling of gā.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of gá.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of gǎ.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of gà.
  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

ga

  1. though, although
  2. albeit

gâ

  1. inflection of gâen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive

ga

  1. (Early Middle English, Northern) Alternative form of gon (“to go”)

From Proto-Torres-Banks *ɣaya, an irregular reflex of Proto-Oceanic *kawaʀ, metathesis of *wakaʀ (“root”). Cognate with Hiw ga and Lo-Toga gi, and also with Proto-Polynesian *kawa (whence Tongan kava).

ga (determinate naga)

  1. kava plant, Piper methysticum
  2. kava, an intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant.

From Proto-Iranian *gā́wš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gā́wš, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Related to Persian گاو (gâv).

ga ?

  1. ox
  2. bull

ga

  1. simple past of gi

gā

  1. inflection of gān:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. singular present subjunctive

From Sanskrit किम् (kim, “what? why? (interrogative particle)”).

ga (indefinite, Perso-Arabic spelling گہ)

  1. any
  2. what (kind), which
  • Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ga”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎[3], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ga”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ga (indefinite, Perso-Arabic spelling گہ)

  1. what
  2. that
  • Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ga”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎[4], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ga (conjunction, Perso-Arabic spelling گہ)

  1. Complementizer/relativizer
  2. that
  3. which
  4. who
  5. where
  • Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ga”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎[5], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ga (modal, Perso-Arabic spelling گہ)

  1. Marker of inferred, assumed or presumed knowledge
  • Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ga”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎[6], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Onomatopoeic.

ga

  1. sound made by geese

ga

  1. him, it (direct object)
    Bha sinn ga thuigsinn. ― We understood it.
  2. her, it (direct object)
    Cha bhi mi ga tachairt. ― I won't be meeting her.
  • As him/it lenites the following word.
  • As her/it adds the prefix h- to the following word if it begins with a vowel.
    An robh thu ga h-ithe? ― Did you eat it?

ga (Cyrillic spelling га)

  1. of him (clitic genitive singular of ȏn (“he”))
  2. him (clitic accusative singular of ȏn (“he”))
  3. of it (clitic genitive singular of òno (“it”))
  4. it (clitic accusative singular of òno (“it”))

Inflection of 3rd-person pronouns

Singular Plural
Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
nominative ȏn òna òno òni òne òna
genitive njȅga, ga njȇ, je njȅga, ga njȋh, ih njȋh, ih njȋh, ih
dative njȅmu, mu njȏj, joj njȅmu, mu njȉma, im njȉma, im njȉma, im
accusative njȅga, ga, nj njȗ, ju, je njȅga, ga, nj njȋh, ih njȋh, ih njȋh, ih
vocative — — — — — —
locative njȅm, njȅmu njȏj njȅm, njȅmu njȉma njȉma njȉma
instrumental njȋm, njíme njȏm, njóme njȋm, njíme njȉma njȉma njȉma

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kogъda.

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡa/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: ga

ga

  1. introduces either a dependent or interrogative clause in reference to time; when

ga

  1. when, as; while (at the time that)
  2. when; if (under the condition that)
  3. when; because

ga (not comparable)

  1. sometime (at some undetermined time)

ga

  1. Romanization of 𒂵 (ga)

Possibly a shortened form of baga, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ba. Cognate with Cebuano ba and Malagasy va.

ga (Baybayin spelling ᜄ) (dialectal, Batangas, Quezon, Mindoro, Marinduque)

  1. marks a sentence as interrogative
    Synonyms: ba, (dialectal) baga

Influenced by Baybayin character ᜄ (ga).

ga (Baybayin spelling ᜄ)

  1. the name of the Latin-script letter G/g, in the Abakada alphabet
    Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) dyi, (in the Abecedario) ge
  • “ga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ba₅”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

ga

  1. skunk
  • Gamarra A., Enrique, Villagra S., Inocencio (1980) Llëbo ñaglo lok kibokwogo ëre e lanyo = Vocabulario ilustrado teribe-español‎[8] (overall work in Teribe and Spanish), Instituto Nacional de Cultura & Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 9

ga

  1. third-person singular present indicative of gaver

From French gare.

ga (𥩤)

  1. train station

From French gaz (“gas”), from Dutch gas.

ga (𪵤)

  1. gas, such as propane and/or butane, used for a gas stove; compare khí (“gas as a chemical substance”)
    bình ga ― a gas tank
  2. carbon dioxide used for a carbonated drink
    nước ngọt có ga ― a sweet carbonated drink
  3. lighter fluid

    Bật lửa này hết ga rồi.

    This lighter's run out of fluid.
  4. (automotive) the ignited mixture of fuel and air that powers an engine; not to be confused with xăng (“gasoline”)
    xe bị rồ/oà ga ― a motorcycle with a broken throttle that accelerates while the twistgrip is released

    Nổ nãy giờ mà chẳng có ga gì hết !

    I've been trying to start my bike for hours and it's still not working!
    chạy tẹt ga ― to step on it/on the gas; to floor it; to put your foot down; to run full throttle

ga

  1. (Southern Vietnam, especially Mekong Delta) Pronunciation spelling of ra (“bed sheet”).

ga

  1. Soft mutation of ca.

ga

  1. jackrabbit

From Mandarin 尕 (gǎ).

ga

  1. small (in size, number, etc.)

    je-ge jjhakai zhungo kan-la xaige ga-li.

    This country is much smaller than China.

    dangga gejhai-mu ga-de shai-la ha xaitang-li da gu qhi-de yi-zek ra mi-li.

    None of our schoolchildren goes to Chinese school [i.e. schools where the medium of education is Mandarin] at the very young age.
  • Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN
  • Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎[9], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

ga

  1. Alternative form of gae

    • 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 8:

      An Paudeen hay ga her a mighty smugal.

      And Paddy, he gave her a mighty smack.
  • Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎[10], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 133

gà

  1. to set up a collapsible device; to open out; to spread out
    Bá mi ga agbòjò yìí ― Help me open this umbrella
  2. to gape open
    Ilẹ̀ á gà jù ọ́ lọ ― The ground shall open and swallow you up
  • ga before a direct object
  1. to set someone up for a joke; (literally) to make someone believe what may not be true of themselves in a joking manner
    mo ń gà ẹ́ ni ― I am only setting you up for a joke
  2. (transitive) to tickle
    Synonyms: rìn, rìn ní ìgàkè, gà léèégìnnì, rìn léèégìnnì
  • ga before a direct object

ga

  1. to be tall
    Antonym: kúrú
  2. (idiomatic) to be beyond that which can be tolerated or described
Yoruba Varieties and Languages - ga (“to be tall”)
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Language FamilyVariety GroupVariety/LanguageSubdialectLocationWords
Proto-Itsekiri-SEYSoutheast YorubaEastern ÀkókóÀkùngbáÀkùngbá Àkókógùn
Ìjẹ̀búÌjẹ̀búÌjẹ̀bú Òdegọn
Rẹ́mọẸ̀pẹ́gọn
Ìkòròdúgọn
Ṣágámùgọn
Ìkálẹ̀ (Ùkálẹ̀)Òkìtìpupago
OǹdóOǹdógo
UsẹnUsẹngùn
ÌtsẹkírìÌwẹrẹgo
Proto-YorubaCentral YorubaÈkìtìÈkìtìÀdó Èkìtìga
Àkúrẹ́Àkúrẹ́ga
Mọ̀bàỌ̀tùn Èkìtìga
Ifẹ̀ (Ufẹ̀)Ilé Ifẹ̀ (Ulé Ufẹ̀)go
Òkè IgbóÒkè Igbógo
Northwest YorubaÀwórìÈbúté Mẹ́tàga
Ẹ̀gbádòÌjàkága
ÈkóÈkóga
ÌbàdànÌbàdànga
ÌbàràpáIgbó Òràga
Ìbọ̀lọ́Òṣogbo (Òsogbo)ga
ÌlọrinÌlọringa
OǹkóÒtùga
Ìwéré Iléga
Òkèhòga
Ìsẹ́yìnga
Ṣakíga
Tedéga
Ìgbẹ́tìga
Ọ̀yọ́Ọ̀yọ́ga
Standard YorùbáNàìjíríàga
Bɛ̀nɛ̀ga
Northeast Yoruba/OkunÌyàgbàÌsánlú Ìtẹ̀dóga
OwéKabbaga
Ede Languages/Southwest YorubaCábɛ̀ɛ́Cábɛ̀ɛ́ (Ìdàdú)gù
Tchaourougù, ga
Ǹcà (Ìcà, Ìncà)Baàtɛgù, ga
ÌdàácàBeninIgbó Ìdàácà (Dasa Zunmɛ̀)gù
Ọ̀họ̀rí/Ɔ̀hɔ̀rí-ÌjèỌ̀họ̀rí/Ɔ̀hɔ̀rí/ÌjèÌkpòbɛ́ga
Onigbologa
Kétu/ÀnàgóKétugù
Ifɛ̀Akpáréga, gù
Atakpamɛga, gù
Bokoga
Tchetti (Tsɛti, Cɛti)ga, gù
Northern NagoKamboleɡã
Manigrigù
Note: This amalgamation of terms comes from a number of different academic papers focused on the unique varieties and languages spoken in the Yoruboid dialectal continuum which extends from eastern Togo to southern Nigeria. The terms for spoken varieties, now deemed dialects of Yorùbá in Nigeria (i.e. Southeast Yorùbá, Northwest Yorùbá, Central Yorùbá, and Northeast Yorùbá), have converged with those of Standard Yorùbá leading to the creation of what can be labeled Common Yorùbá (Funṣọ Akere, 1977). It can be assumed that the Standard Yorùbá term can also be used in most Nigerian varieties alongside native terms, especially amongst younger speakers. This does not apply to the other Nigerian Yoruboid languages of Ìṣẹkírì and Olùkùmi, nor the Èdè Languages of Benin and Togo.
  • gíga (“tallness; height”)
  • ó ga! (“this is beyond description!”)

gá

  1. to stand aloof
  2. to become tired or fed up
    Synonym: gọ́
    ọ̀rọ̀ náàá gá mi ― This matter has caused me to be fed up

From Proto-Iranian *gā́wš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gā́wš, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Related to Persian گاو (gâv).

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡɑ]
  • Hyphenation: ga

ga

  1. ox
  2. bull
  3. (astronomy, astrology) Taurus

From Proto-Tai *p.qaːᴬ (“leg”). Cognate with Thai ขา (kǎa), Northern Thai ᨡᩣ, Lao ຂາ (khā), Lü ᦃᦱ (ẋaa), Shan ၶႃ (khǎa), Tai Nüa ᥑᥣᥴ (xáa), Ahom 𑜁𑜡 (khā), Bouyei gal.

ga (Sawndip forms 𮛑 or 胩 or 跏 or 軻, 1957–1982 spelling ga)

  1. (anatomy) leg
  2. leg (of a chair, table, etc.)

ga (1957–1982 spelling ga)

  1. quarter of (a butchered four-legged animal)
  2. one of a pair of long, thin objects (shoes, socks, gloves, chopsticks, etc.)