gau

See also: Gau, GAU, gấu, gâu, and gáu

English

Alternative forms

• ghau

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʊ/
• Rhymes: -aʊ
• Homophone: Gow

Noun

gau (plural gaus)

1. (Tibetan Buddhism) A prayer box or small container worn as jewelry and containing an amulet or similar item.

Anagrams

• AGU, Aug, Aug., GUA, UGA, aug

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Basque

Alternative forms

• gai

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡau̯/, [ɡau̯]

Noun

gau inan

1. night

Declension

Declension of gau (inanimate, ending in vowel)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	gau	gaua	gauak
ergative	gauk	gauak	gauek
dative	gauri	gauari	gauei
genitive	gauren	gauaren	gauen
comitative	gaurekin	gauarekin	gauekin
causative	gaurengatik	gauarengatik	gauengatik
benefactive	gaurentzat	gauarentzat	gauentzat
instrumental	gauez	gauaz	gauez
inessive	gautan	gauean	gauetan
locative	gautako	gaueko	gauetako
allative	gautara	gauera	gauetara
terminative	gautaraino	gaueraino	gauetaraino
directive	gautarantz	gauerantz	gauetarantz
destinative	gautarako	gauerako	gauetarako
ablative	gautatik	gauetik	gauetatik
partitive	gaurik	—	—
prolative	gautzat	—	—

Derived terms

• gauenara
• gauerdi
• gaur

 

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French

Alternative forms

• gaut, go

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡo/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -o

Noun

gau m (plural gaux)

1. (slang) louse

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Kalo Finnish Romani

Etymology

Inherited from .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɑu]

Noun

gau m (nominative plural gaave)

1. village

Further reading

• Kimmo Granqvist (2011) “Eräitä keskeisiä äännevaihteluja”, in Lyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi [Consice grammar of Finnish Romani]‎^[3] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland, →ISBN, →ISSN, retrieved February 10, 2022, page 12

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Lashi

Lashi cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : gau

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d/s-kəw. Cognates include Nuosu ꈬ (ggu) and Burmese ကိုး (kui:).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaw/, [ɡɔw]

Numeral

gau

1. nine

References

• Mark Wannemacher (2011) A phonological overview of the Lacid language‎^[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University.

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Latin

Etymology

Poetic clipping of gaudium. Attributed to Ennius (circa 200 BCE) by the poet Ausonius in his catalogue of monosyllabic Latin words, never attested directly.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡau̯/, [ɡäu̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡau̯/, [ɡäːu̯]

Noun

gau n (indeclinable) (archaic, poetic, hapax)

1. Clipping of gaudium (“joy”).
   • c. 310 CE – c. 395 CE, Ausonius, Technopaegnion 144:

     Ennius ut memorat, repleat te laetificum gau.

     As Ennius says, may gladdening joy fill you.

Declension

Indeclinable noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gau	gau
Genitive	gau	gau
Dative	gau	gau
Accusative	gau	gau
Ablative	gau	gau
Vocative	gau	gau

References

• “gau”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gau in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “gau” in volume 6, part 2, column 1701, line 34 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

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Low German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudden, quick”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Dutch gauw (“quickly”), German jäh (“sudden, abrupt”). More at gay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʊ̯/

Adjective

gau

1. quick

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Niuean

Verb

gau

1. chew

Derived terms

• gagau

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gauð.

Noun

gau n (definite singular gauet, indefinite plural gau, definite plural gaua)

1. a bark
2. (collective) barking
3. noise

Derived terms

• gaua, gaue (verb)

References

• “gau” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• aug, aug., uga

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Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gā, from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz. More at gay.

Adverb

gau

1. quickly; swiftly
2. soon; at once

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Welsh

Etymology 1

Cognate with Cornish gow, Breton gaou.

Adjective

gau (feminine singular gau, plural geuon, equative geued, comparative geuach, superlative geuaf)

1. false, fake

   Synonym: ffals

Derived terms

• euog (“guilty”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
gau	au	ngau	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology 2

Mutated form of cau (“to close”).

Verb

gau

1. Soft mutation of cau.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cau	gau	nghau	chau
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gā, from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz.

Adverb

gau

1. quickly

   Synonym: rap

2. soon

Further reading

• “gau (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011