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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Letter 2 Czech 2.1 Letter 3 Faroese 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Etymology 1 3.2.1 Noun 3.3 Etymology 2 3.3.1 Noun 3.3.1.1 Synonyms 3.3.1.2 Declension 3.3.1.3 Usage notes 3.4 Etymology 3 3.4.1 Preposition 3.4.1.1 Usage notes 3.5 Etymology 4 3.5.1 Interjection 3.5.1.1 Usage notes 3.6 Etymology 5 3.6.1 Verb 3.7 References 4 Galician 4.1 Etymology 1 4.1.1 Contraction 4.2 Etymology 2 4.2.1 Noun 5 Icelandic 5.1 Etymology 1 5.1.1 Noun 5.1.1.1 Declension 5.2 Etymology 2 5.2.1 Noun 5.3 Etymology 3 5.3.1 Noun 5.4 Etymology 4 5.4.1 Verb 5.5 Etymology 5 5.5.1 Interjection 5.6 Etymology 6 5.6.1 Preposition 5.6.1.1 Derived terms 6 Irish 6.1 Etymology 6.2 Contraction 6.2.1 Usage notes 6.2.2 Related terms 7 Mandarin 7.1 Alternative spellings 7.2 Pinyin 8 Old Norse 8.1 Noun 8.2 Verb 8.3 Interjection 8.4 Preposition 9 Portuguese 9.1 Pronunciation 9.2 Noun 10 Spanish 10.1 Preposition

[edit] Translingual

The Latin script
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Variations of letter A Áá Àà Ââ Ǎǎ Ăă Ãã Ảả Ȧȧ Ạạ Ää Åå Ḁḁ Āā Ąą ᶏ Ⱥⱥ Ȁȁ Ấấ Ầầ Ẫẫ Ẩẩ Ậậ Ắắ Ằằ Ẵẵ Ẳẳ Ặặ Ǻǻ Ǡǡ Ǟǟ Ȁȁ Ȃȃ Ɑɑ ᴀ Ɐɐ ɒ Ａａ Ææ Ǽǽ Ǣǣ Letters using acute accent or double acute accent Áá Ắắ Ấấ Ǻǻ Ćć Ḉḉ Éé Ếế Ǵǵ Íí Ḱḱ Ĺĺ Ḿḿ Ńń Óó Őő Ớớ Ǿǿ Ṕṕ Ŕŕ Śś Úú Űű Ứứ Ẃẃ Ýý Źź Ǽǽ

[edit] Letter

á lower case (upper case Á)

1. The letter a with an acute accent.

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[edit] Czech

[edit] Letter

á (lower case, upper case Á)

1. The second letter of the Czech alphabet, after a and before b

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[edit] Faroese

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [ɔaː]^[1]

[edit] Etymology 1

Long Old Norse /a/. often written as ā or normalized á or even aa, cf. Swedish, Danish, Norwegian å.^[2]

[edit] Noun

á n.

1. a monophthong or dipthong, 2nd letter in the Faroese alphabet (called [ɔa])

[edit] Etymology 2

Old Norse á (‘river’), Svabo: Aa.^[3]

[edit] Noun

á f.

1. brook, stream, river

[edit] Synonyms

• løkur (‘brook’)

[edit] Declension

f2 (á)	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	á	áin	áir	áirnar
Accusative	á	ánna	áir	áirnar
Dative	á	ánni	áum	áunum
Genitive	áar	áarinnar	áa	áanna

[edit] Usage notes

• (poetry): áir renna vakrar har - ‘the rivers flow beautiful there’
• áirnar standa á svølgi - ‘the rivers stand on deep water’ (= it's raining a lot) (cf. áarføri)
• um áir og gjáir - ‘over rivers and gorges’ (= to travel a long way)
• fara yvir um á(nna) eftir vatni - ‘go over the river in order to get water’ (= to look for unnecessary struggle)
• tað gekk sum eftir ánni - ‘it went like after the river’ (= it was very easy)
• ganga / fara í áir - go to the river in order to fish trouts^[3] (described in Føroysk orðabók 1998 as local usage in the island of Vágar about fishing trouts in a lake^[4])

[edit] Etymology 3

Old Norse á (‘on, onto, in, at’). Svabo: aa.^[5]

[edit] Preposition

á (+ accusative)

1. on, onto, to, near, beside
2. (with fjords, bays, harbours) to

á (+ dative)

1. on, in, at
2. (with certain place names) in
3. (with fjords, bays, harbours) at, in
4. (with seafaring and fishery) at

[edit] Usage notes

Note: The preposition ‘á’ is used with accusative case if the verb shows movement from one place to another, whereas it is used with dative case if the verb shows location. This is the same usage as with German auf:

Governing accusative

• legg bókina á borðið - place the book on the table
• hann fer umborð á skipið - he goes aboard the ship
• skriva á talvuna - to write on the blackboard
• fara á fjall - to go in the mountains

with fjords, bays, harbours

• skipið kom á Vestmanna - the ship came to Vestmanna
• skipið kom á Havnina - the ship came to Tórshavn

Governing dative

• bókin liggur á borðinum - the book is on the table
• hann er umborð á skipinum - he is aboard the ship
• tað stendur á talvuni - this stands on the blackboard
• vera á fjalli - to be in the mountains (in order to roundup the sheep^[5])

place names (antonym: av)

• á Eiði - in Eiði
• á Glyvrum - in Glyvrar
• á Húsum - in Húsar
• á Kirkju - in Kirkja
• á Skála - in Skáli
• á Velbastað - in Velbastaður
• á bygd - in the village (countryside)

with fjords, bays, harbours

• skipið lá á Havnini - the ship lay in Tórshavn

with seafaring and fishery

• vera á útróðri - to be fishing (with a rowing boat)^[5]

[edit] Etymology 4

Onomatopoeia

[edit] Interjection

• á!

1. oh!
2. animal sound of the puffin (lundi)

[edit] Usage notes

• lundin sigur á á á - the puffin makes “oa oa oa”

[edit] Etymology 5

Old Norse

[edit] Verb

Old present form of 'at eiga' (own) á

[edit] References

• Notes:

1. ^ V. U. Hammershaimb: Færøsk Anthologi. Copenhagen 1891, 3rd edition Tórshavn 1991 (Vol. 2, p. 2, entry á^{1, 2})
2. ^ Vibeke Sandersen: „Om bogstavet å“ in Nyt fra Sprognævnet 2002/3 September.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Aa¹ in: Jens Christian Svabo: Dictionarium Færoense : Færøsk-dansk-latinsk ordbog. (ed. Christian Matras after manuscripts from late 18th century). Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1966. (p. 1)
4. ^ Jóhan Hendrik W. Poulsen, et al.: Føroysk orðabók. Tórshavn: Føroya Fróðskaparfelag 1998. (Entry á²)
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} aa² in: Jens Christian Svabo: Dictionarium Færoense : Færøsk-dansk-latinsk ordbog. (ed. Christian Matras after manuscripts from late 18th century). Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1966. (p. 1f.)

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[edit] Galician

[edit] Etymology 1

From contraction of preposition a (“‘to, towards’”) + feminine definite article a (“‘the’”)

[edit] Contraction

á f. (masculine ao, masculine plural aos, feminine plural ás)

1. to the, towards the

[edit] Etymology 2

From Latin ala.

[edit] Noun

á f. (plural ás)

1. wing

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[edit] Icelandic

[edit] Etymology 1

Compare Danish å, Norwegian å, Swedish å.

[edit] Noun

á f. (genitive singular ár, plural ár)

1. river

[edit] Declension

Declension of á
	(singular)		(plural)
	(indefinite)	(definite)	(indefinite)	(definite)
nominative	á	áin	ár	árnar
accusative	á	ána	ár	árnar
dative	á	ánni	ám	ánum
genitive	ár	árinnar	áa	ánna
Other words with the same declension

[edit] Etymology 2

Inflection of á.

[edit] Noun

á f.

1. indefinite accusative singular of á
2. indefinite dative singular of á

[edit] Etymology 3

Inflection of ær.

[edit] Noun

á f.

1. indefinite accusative singular of ær
2. indefinite dative singular of ær

[edit] Etymology 4

Conjugation of eiga.

[edit] Verb

á

1. 1. person singular of the verb eiga. I own.
2. 3. person singular of the verb eiga. He owns.

[edit] Etymology 5

[edit] Interjection

á!

1. ow! ouch!

   Á! Þetta var vont!

   Ouch! That hurt!

[edit] Etymology 6

[edit] Preposition

á (+ accusative/dative)

1. on

   Hvar eru lyklarnir? - Þeir eru á borðinu.

   Where are the keys? - They are on the table.

2. in

   Ég bý á Íslandi.

   I live in Iceland.

[edit] Derived terms

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[edit] Irish

[edit] Etymology

From ag + a.

[edit] Contraction

á

1. him, her, it, them

[edit] Usage notes

• Used before the verbal noun to indicate third person direct object;
  1. Triggers lenition (or h before a vowel) when meaning him, or it (if referring to a masculine noun):

     Táim á bhualadh -- I am hitting him

     Táim á hól -- I am drinking it

  2. Triggers no change when meaning her, or it (if referring to a feminine noun):

     Táim á bualadh -- I am hitting her

     Táim á ól -- I am drinking it

  3. Triggers eclipsis (including n- before a vowel) when meaning them:

     Táim á mbualadh -- I am hitting them

     Táim á n-ól -- I am drinking them

[edit] Related terms

• a
• ag
• do

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Alternative spellings

• a2

[edit] Pinyin

á (form of a2 with diacritic)

1. 嗄: hoarse

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[edit] Old Norse

[edit] Noun

á

1. a river

[edit] Verb

á

1. 1. person singular of the verb eiga. I own.
2. 3. person singular of the verb eiga. He owns.

[edit] Interjection

á!

1. ow! ouch!

[edit] Preposition

á (+ dative)

1. on

   Þeir eru á hólmi.

   They are on an island.

2. in

   Ek bý á Islandi.

   I live in Iceland.

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[edit] Portuguese

[edit] Pronunciation

•  Audio (BR)^{help, file}

[edit] Noun

á m.

1. a (name of the letter A, a)

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Preposition

á

1. Obsolete spelling of a.