gañen

See also: ganen and gǎn'ēn

Galician edit

Verb edit

gañen

inflection of gañar:
1. third-person plural present subjunctive
2. third-person plural imperative

Garifuna edit

Etymology edit

Likely an old compound of Garifuna gayu (“chicken, fowl”) and an obsolete word meaning “egg”. Compare also Kalinago gą́ie (“chicken's egg”), which Taylor (1951) analyzes as a compound of gáiu (“chicken, fowl”, from Spanish gallo) +‎ ę́u (“egg”, having possessive form -ę).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɲẽ/

Noun edit

gañen

Inflection edit

Possessives of gañen

	singular		plural
first	nigañe		wagañe
second	bigañe		higañe
third	masculine	feminine	hagañe
third	ligañe	tigañe	hagañe

References edit

Taylor, Douglas (1951) “Morphophonemics of Island Carib (Central American Dialect)”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 17, number 4, pages 224-234.

Spanish edit

Verb edit

gañen

third-person plural present indicative of gañir