ngana
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
ngana (uncountable)
- Obsolete spelling of nagana
- 1908 March 12, John William Watson Stephens, “Sleeping Sickness”, in Nature, volume 77, pages 440–442:
- It is perhaps an exaggeration to say that we know now no more about tsetse-flies than we did when Bruce discovered that Gl. morsitans transmitted the trypanosome (T. brucei) of ngana […]
Anagrams[edit]
Gamilaraay[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ngana
References[edit]
- (2017) Giacon J Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay Dictionary Supplement
Guugu Yimidhirr[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Paman *ngana, from Proto-Pama-Maric *ngana, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *ngana.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
ngana
Usage notes[edit]
Most modern speakers use the inland form nganhdhaan, even if they otherwise use coastal words.
Synonyms[edit]
- nganhdhaan (inland dialect)
References[edit]
- Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
- Haviland, John B. 1979. ‘Guugu Yimidhirr Sketch Grammar’. R. M. W. Dixon, B. Blake (eds.) Handbook of Australian Languages, Vol I.
Lindu[edit]
Noun[edit]
ngana
Manado Malay[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From North Moluccan Malay ngana, from Ternate ngana.
Pronoun[edit]
ngana
- you (singular)
North Moluccan Malay[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
ngana
- you (singular)
- Ngana tara tau apa-apa tentang kita.
- You don't know a thing about me.
Ternate[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
ngana (subject clitic no, possessive prefix ni, Jawi ڠان)
- second-person singular pronoun, you
See also[edit]
Ternate personal pronouns
independent | subject proclitic | possessive | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Informal | Formal | |||||
1st person singular | ngori | fangarem, fajaruf | to | ri | ||
2nd person singular | ngana | ngoni, jou ngoni | no | ni | ||
3rd person singular | unam, minaf | om, mof, inh | im, mif, manh | |||
1st person plural inclusive | ngone | fo | na, nga | |||
1st person plural exclusive | ngomi | fangare ngomim, fajaru ngomif, fara ngomi1 | mi | mi, mia | ||
2nd person plural | ngoni | ni | na, nia | |||
3rd person plural | anah, enanh | ih, nh, yoh, †, yanh, † | nah, ngah, manh |
- unmarked pronouns are gender non-specific
- m - masculine, f - feminine, h - human, nh - non-human
- 1 - for mixed-gender groups
- † - archaic
References[edit]
- Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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