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See also: གླེ, གྷ, , and གི
U+0F42, ག
TIBETAN LETTER GA

[U+0F41]
Tibetan
[U+0F43]

Translingual

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Letter

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  1. Tibetan letter ga

Balti

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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(ga)

  1. The fifth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kʰɑ˥/, [kʰɑ˥]

Etymology 1

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Letter

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(ga)

  1. The third letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Etymology 2

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Pronoun

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(ga)

  1. who

Kurtöp

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Related to Dzongkha དགའ (dga') and Tibetan དགའ (dga').

Verb

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(ga)

  1. (transitive) to enjoy
  2. (transitive) to love
Conjugation
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Conjugation of (ga)
affirmative negative I negative II
unmarked (ga) མ་ག (maga) མེ་ག (mega)
prospective ག་ཀི་ན (gakina) མ་ག་ཀི་ན (magakina) མེ་ག་ཀི་ན (megakina)
perfective I ག་ས་ར (gasara) མ་ག་ས་ར (magasara) མེ་ག་ས་ར (megasara)
II ག་མུ (gamu)
III ག་ན (gana) མ་ག་ན (magana) མེ་ག་ན (megana)
IV ག་ཤང (gashang) མ་ག་ཤང (magashang) མེ་ག་ཤང (megashang)
V ག་ས་ལ (gasala) མ་ག་ས་ལ (magasala) མེ་ག་ས་ལ (megasala)
mirative ག་ན (gana) མ་ག་ན (magana) མེ་ག་ན (megana)
imperfective egophoric ག་ཏ་ཀི (gataki) མ་ག་ཏ་ཀི (magataki) མེ་ག་ཏ་ཀི (megataki)
non-egophoric ག་ཏ (gata) མ་ག་ཏ (magata) མེ་ག་ཏ (megata)
infinitive ག་རོ (garo)

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ga. Cognates include Tibetan སྒ (sga) and Dzongkha སྒ (sga).

Noun

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(ga)

  1. saddle

Etymology 3

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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(ga)

  1. path

References

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  • G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016), Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 23
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017), A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 32

Tibetan

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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(ga)

  1. Tibetan letter ga