gah
English edit
Interjection edit
gah
- Expressing exasperation or annoyance.
- 2009 January 20, Alison Godfrey, quoting Bronwyn Lovejoy, “Coles, Woolworths and IGA workers vent about customers on Facebook”, in Herald Sun[1], archived from the original on 20 January 2009:
- “And stop calling it soccerball! gah! do any of the tickets say soccerball? no!“”
Anagrams edit
Azerbaijani edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Conjunction edit
gah
- Used to denote repeated alternation of enumerated actions, events or objects.
- Gah belə deyir, gah elə.
- Sometimes he says this, sometimes that.
- Gah sola gedir, gah sağa, özü bilmir hara getsin.
- He walks left, then he walks right, he doesn't know where to go himself.
Further reading edit
- “gah” in Obastan.com.
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Etymology edit
Cognate with Tsuut'ina nitłʼadigha, Chipewyan gah, Beaver gaah, Carrier goh, Sekani gah, Ahtna ggax, Tlingit g̱áx̱ and South Slavey gah.
Noun edit
gah
Derived terms edit
- gahtsoh (hare)
Pali edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Sanskrit गृह् (gṛh).
Root edit
gah (Pali name gaha)
Usage notes edit
The initial consonant tends to geminate after prefixes. Nasals after the root may be retroflexed.
Derived terms edit
Verbs
Non-present participles, gerundives, absolutives and infinitives
Nouns
South Slavey edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Athabaskan *gax̣. Cognates include Navajo gah and Dogrib gah.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gah (stem -gah-)
Inflection edit
Possessive inflection of gah (-gahé)
singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|
1st person | segahé | naxegahé | |
2nd person | negahé | ||
3rd person | 1) | — | gigahé |
2) | megahé | gogahé | |
4th person | yegahé | ||
reflexive | sp. | ɂedegahé | kedegahé |
unsp. | degahé | ||
reciprocal | — | ɂełegahé | |
indefinite | ɂegahé | ||
areal | gogahé | ||
1) Used when the subject is a group of human beings and the object is singular. 2) Used when the previous condition does not apply. |
References edit
- Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 99
Western Apache edit
Noun edit
gah
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