gu
See also: Appendix:Variations of "gu"
TranslingualEdit
SymbolEdit
gu
EnglishEdit
NounEdit
gu
AnagramsEdit
AmbulasEdit
NounEdit
gu
ReferencesEdit
- Patricia R. Wilson, Ambulas Grammar (1980)
AnguthimriEdit
NounEdit
gu
- (Mpakwithi) knee
ReferencesEdit
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186
BasqueEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
gu
- First-person plural personal pronoun; we
DeclensionEdit
Declension of Basque personal pronouns
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- gu in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
- “gu” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
Dena'inaEdit
AdverbEdit
gu
DeterminerEdit
gu
IatmulEdit
NounEdit
gu
Derived termsEdit
- nyigi gu (“beer”, literally “bitter water”)
ReferencesEdit
- Gerd Jendraschek, in Future Times, Future Tenses, edited by Philippe De Brabanter, Mikhail Kissine, Saghie Sharifzadeh
Isthmus ZapotecEdit
NounEdit
gu
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
gu
ManambuEdit
NounEdit
gu
ReferencesEdit
- Alexandra Aikhenvald, The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (2010, →ISBN
MandarinEdit
RomanizationEdit
gu
- Nonstandard spelling of gū.
- Nonstandard spelling of gú.
- Nonstandard spelling of gǔ.
- Nonstandard spelling of gù.
Usage notesEdit
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Middle EnglishEdit
PronounEdit
gu
- Alternative form of yow
Scottish GaelicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Irish go, from Old Irish co. Cognates include Irish go and Manx dy.
PronunciationEdit
ParticleEdit
gu
- Makes an adverb when placed in front of an adjective
- Tha mi gu math.
- I am (doing) well.
Usage notesEdit
- Before vowels the form gu h- is used.
PrepositionEdit
gu (+ dative)
- till, until
- Fanaidh mi gu ochd uairean.
- I’ll wait until eight o’clock.
- to
- Chuir mi litir gu mo phàrantan.
- I sent a letter to my parents.
InflectionEdit
Personal inflection of gu | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number | Person | Simple | Emphatic | ||||||
Singular | 1st | thugam | thugamsa | ||||||
2nd | thugad | thugadsa | |||||||
3rd m | thuige | thuigesan | |||||||
3rd f | thuice | thuicese | |||||||
Plural | 1st | thugainn | thugainne | ||||||
2nd | thugaibh | thugaibhse | |||||||
3rd | thuca | thucasan |
Usage notesEdit
- Before the definite article takes the form chun and is followed by the genitive instead of the dative.
- Is toil leis a bhith a' dol gu partaidhean.
- He likes going to parties.
- A bheil thu tighinn chun a' phartaidh?
- Are you coming to the party?
Alternative formsEdit
Derived termsEdit
ConjunctionEdit
gu
- that; used with the dependent form of a verb to introduce a subordinate clause.
- Tha mi a’ smaoineachadh gu bheil clann aca.
- I think that they have children.
Usage notesEdit
- If the clause is negated, gu is replaced with nach.
SumerianEdit
RomanizationEdit
gu
- Romanization of 𒄖 (gu)
VietnameseEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gu
- (colloquial) taste, set of preferences
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
WelshEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ɡɨː/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ɡiː/
- Homophone: gi (South Wales only)
AdjectiveEdit
gu
- Soft mutation of cu.
MutationEdit
Welsh mutation | |||
---|---|---|---|
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
cu | gu | nghu | chu |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
WutunhuaEdit
PronunciationEdit
DeterminerEdit
gu
PronounEdit
gu
See alsoEdit
Wutunhua personal pronouns
ReferencesEdit
YolaEdit
VerbEdit
gu
- Alternative form of gee
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Gu es.
- Give us.
ReferencesEdit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 43
ZouEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ruʔ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rus. Cognates include Mizo ruh and Burmese ရိုး (rui:).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gù
ReferencesEdit
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University