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From Sanskrit गुण (guṇá, quality) +‎ -ate.

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gunate (third-person singular simple present gunates, present participle gunating, simple past and past participle gunated)

  1. (Sanskrit linguistics, transitive) To lengthen the simple vowel a, i, u, or by prefixing an a element.

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