gau
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gau (plural gaus)
- (Tibetan Buddhism) A prayer box or small container worn as jewelry and containing an amulet or similar item.
AnagramsEdit
BasqueEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unknown.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gau inan
DeclensionEdit
Declension of gau (inanimate, ending in vowel) | |||
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indefinite | singular | plural | |
absolutive | gau | gaua | gauak |
ergative | gauk | gauak | gauek |
dative | gauri | gauari | gauei |
genitive | gauren | gauaren | gauen |
comitative | gaurekin | gauarekin | gauekin |
causative | gaurengatik | gauarengatik | gauengatik |
benefactive | gaurentzat | gauarentzat | gauentzat |
instrumental | gauez | gauaz | gauez |
inessive | gautan | gauean | gauetan |
locative | gautako | gaueko | gauetako |
allative | gautara | gauera | gauetara |
terminative | gautaraino | gaueraino | gauetaraino |
directive | gautarantz | gauerantz | gauetarantz |
destinative | gautarako | gauerako | gauetarako |
ablative | gautatik | gauetik | gauetatik |
partitive | gaurik | — | — |
prolative | gautzat | — | — |
Derived termsEdit
FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gau m (plural gaux)
Kalo Finnish RomaniEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gau m (nominative plural gaave)
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kimmo Granqvist (2002), “Finnish Romani Phonology and Dialect Geography”, in SKY Journal of Linguistics[1], volume 15, Linguistic Association of Finland, archived from the original on January 28, 2022, pages 61-83
- ^ Kimmo Granqvist (2011), “Diftongit ja vokaaliyhtymät”, in Lyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi [Consice grammar of Finnish Romani][2] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland, →ISBN, ISSN 1796-041X, retrieved February 10, 2022, page 5
Further readingEdit
- Kimmo Granqvist (2011), “Eräitä keskeisiä äännevaihteluja”, in Lyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi [Consice grammar of Finnish Romani][3] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland, →ISBN, ISSN 1796-041X, retrieved February 10, 2022, page 12
LashiEdit
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Cardinal : gau | ||
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d/s-kəw. Cognates include Sichuan Yi ꈬ (ggu) and Burmese ကိုး (kui:).
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
gau
ReferencesEdit
- Mark Wannemacher (2011) A phonological overview of the Lacid language[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University.
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
Poetic clipping of gaudium. Attributed to Ennius (circa 200 BCE) by the poet Ausonius in his catalogue of monosyllabic Latin words, never attested directly.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gau n (indeclinable) (archaic, poetic, hapax)
- Clipping of gaudium (“joy”).
DeclensionEdit
Indeclinable noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | gau | gau |
Genitive | gau | gau |
Dative | gau | gau |
Accusative | gau | gau |
Ablative | gau | gau |
Vocative | gau | gau |
ReferencesEdit
- “gau”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- gau in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “gau” in volume 6, part 2, column 1701, line 34 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
Low GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudden, quick”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Dutch gauw (“quickly”), German jäh (“sudden, abrupt”). More at gay.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
gau
NiueanEdit
VerbEdit
gau
Derived termsEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
gau n (definite singular gauet, indefinite plural gau, definite plural gaua)
- a bark
- (collective) barking
- noise
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “gau” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
AnagramsEdit
Saterland FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Frisian gā, from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz. More at gay.
AdverbEdit
gau
WelshEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Cognate with Cornish gow, Breton gaou.
AdjectiveEdit
gau (feminine singular gau, plural geuon, equative geued, comparative geuach, superlative geuaf)
Derived termsEdit
- euog (“guilty”)
MutationEdit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
gau | au | ngau | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Etymology 2Edit
Mutated form of cau (“to close”).
VerbEdit
gau
- Soft mutation of cau.
MutationEdit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
cau | gau | nghau | chau |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
West FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Frisian gā, from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz.
AdverbEdit
gau
Further readingEdit
- “gau (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011