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-gu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "gu"

Gamilaraay

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Suffix

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-gu

  1. movement to
  2. purpose
  3. belonging to
    bubaa birraygu
    boy's father.
  4. for

Japanese

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Romanization

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-gu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ぐ

Kwini

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Suffix

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-gu

  1. dative case marker
    ngawa-gu : for water

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Laboya

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Pronoun

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-gu

  1. first person singular subject enclitic
  2. first person singular possessive enclitic

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Laboya pronominal clitics
Subject Subject/Possessive Object
Person
1sg gu- -gu -ga
2sg mu- -mu -gu
3sg na- -na -ni
1pl.incl da- -da -da
1pl.excl ma- -ma -gama
2pl mi- -mi -gimi
3pl ɗa- -ɗa -di

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Related to Old Church Slavonic гъ (gŭ, “comparative particle used in негъли (negŭli, “than”)”), of unclear further origin.[1] Beekes derives the particle from Proto-Indo-European *gʰo ~ *gʰe (discourse particle).[2]

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-gu[3]

  1. (Old Lithuanian) particle emphasizing a question
    Tu-gu esi ansai, kursai turi ateiti? ― Are you the one, who is to come?
  2. used in jéigu (“if”) and negù (“than”)

References

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  1. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “gu”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 207
  2. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “γε”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 263
  3. ^ “-gu”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024

Salar

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Suffix

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-gu

  1. Equipping infinitive of verbs.

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  • Yakup Abdurishid (2020). Salar Halkı ve Dilleri (Duygu Ö. Demir, Trans.). Tehlikedeki Diller Dergisi, Çeviriler Dosyası 2-Ek, 151-163. [2]

Turkish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish ـگی (-gi), from Old Anatolian Turkish ـکو (-gü), from Proto-Turkic *-gü.

Suffix

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-gu

  1. Suffix creating a new noun related to its root.
    ‎bulmak (“to find”) + ‎-gu → ‎bulgu (“finding”)
    ‎sormak (“to ask”) + ‎-gu → ‎sorgu (“interrogation”)
    ‎duymak (“to feel, to hear”) + ‎-gu → ‎duygu (“emotion”)

Derived terms

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Turkish terms suffixed with -gu

Uneapa

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Etymology

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From Proto-Oceanic *-gu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *-ku, from Proto-Austronesian *-ku.

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-gu

  1. A first-person singular possessive suffix.

Further reading

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  • Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 365
  • Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.
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