gañen

See also: ganen and gǎn'ēn

Galician

Verb

gañen

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

Garifuna

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɲẽ/

Noun

gañen

1. egg
2. stone
3. (anatomy) testicle

Inflection

Possessives of gañen

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

References

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

Spanish

Verb

gañen

1. third-person plural present indicative of gañir