ngana
English edit
Noun edit
ngana (uncountable)
- Obsolete spelling of nagana
- 1908 March 12, John William Watson Stephens, “Sleeping Sickness”, in Nature, volume 77, pages 440–442:
- It is perhaps an exaggeration to say that we know now no more about tsetse-flies than we did when Bruce discovered that Gl. morsitans transmitted the trypanosome (T. brucei) of ngana […]
Anagrams edit
Gamilaraay edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ngana
References edit
- (2017) Giacon J Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay Dictionary Supplement
Guugu Yimidhirr edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Paman *ngana, from Proto-Pama-Maric *ngana, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *ngana.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ngana
Usage notes edit
Most modern speakers use the inland form nganhdhaan, even if they otherwise use coastal words.
Synonyms edit
- nganhdhaan (inland dialect)
References edit
- Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
- Haviland, John B. 1979. ‘Guugu Yimidhirr Sketch Grammar’. R. M. W. Dixon, B. Blake (eds.) Handbook of Australian Languages, Vol I.
Lindu edit
Noun edit
ngana
Manado Malay edit
Etymology edit
From North Moluccan Malay ngana, from Ternate ngana.
Pronoun edit
ngana
- you (singular)
North Moluccan Malay edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ngana
- you (singular)
- Ngana tara tau apa-apa tentang kita.
- You don't know a thing about me.
Ternate edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ngana (subject clitic no, possessive prefix ni, Jawi ڠان)
- second-person singular pronoun, you
See also edit
Ternate personal pronouns
independent | subject proclitic | possessive | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Informal | Formal | |||||
1st person singular | ngori | fangarem, fajaruf | to | ri | ||
2nd person singular | ngana | ngoni, jou ngoni | no | ni | ||
3rd person singular | unam, minaf | om, mof, inh | im, mif, manh | |||
1st person plural inclusive | ngone | fo | na, nga | |||
1st person plural exclusive | ngomi | fangare ngomim, fajaru ngomif, fara ngomi1 | mi | mi, mia | ||
2nd person plural | ngoni | ni | na, nia | |||
3rd person plural | anah, enanh | ih, nh, yoh, †, yanh, † | nah, ngah, manh |
- unmarked pronouns are gender non-specific
- m - masculine, f - feminine, h - human, nh - non-human
- 1 - for mixed-gender groups
- † - archaic
References edit
- Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh