ga

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ga"

Aeka

Noun

ga

1. rain

Further reading

• transnewguinea.org, citing both Wilson (1969) and McElhanon and Voorhoeve (1970)
• James Farr, Robert Larson, A Selective Word List in Ten Different Binandere Languages
• Papers in New Guinea Linguistics (1971), issues 8-9, pages 80-81, using a wordlist furnished by Capell

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aː
• IPA^(key): /ɣaː/

Verb

ga

1. first-person singular present indicative of gaan
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of gaan
3. imperative of gaan

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Ewe

Noun

ga

1. metal
2. money

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Fijian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ŋaː/

Conjunction

ga

1. but

Synonyms

• ia

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Hiw

Noun

ga

1. kava

Further reading

• Alexandre François, Pragmatic demotion and clause dependency: On two atypical subordinating strategies in the Lo-Toga and Hiw (Torres, Vanuatu) (2010), in Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy (edited by Isabelle Bril)

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Irish

Etymology

Apparently a conflation of Old Irish gath, goth (“spear”) with the synonymous gae (“spear”), from Proto-Celtic *gaisos (“spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰays- (“spear”). Cognate with Welsh gwayw and Latin gaesum (a Gaulish loanword) as well as Old English gār.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa/

Noun

ga m (genitive singular ga, nominative plural gathanna)

1. spear (long stick with a sharp tip)
2. ray (beam of light or radiation)
3. (geometry) radius (line segment between any point on the circumference of a circle and its center; length of this segment)

Declension

Declension of ga

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative ga gathanna Vocative a gha a ghathanna Genitive ga gathanna Dative ga gathanna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an ga na gathanna Genitive an gha na ngathanna Dative leis an nga don gha leis na gathanna

Alternative (archaic or dialectal) forms:

Declension of ga

Irregular

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative ga gaethe Vocative a gha a ghaethe Genitive gae gath Dative ga gaethe gaethibh (archaic, dialectal)

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an ga na gaethe Genitive an ghae na ngath Dative leis an nga don gha leis na gaethe leis na gaethibh (archaic, dialectal)

Alternative genitive singular: gaoi

Derived terms

Terms derived from ga

• alfa-gha m (“alpha ray”)
• béitea-gha m (“beta ray”)
• ga-chatóideach (“cathode-ray”, adj)

• gáma-gha m (“gamma ray”)
• ga-shiméadrach (“radially symmetrical”, adj)

• ga-shiméadracht f (“radial symmetry”)
• X-gha m (“X-ray”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
ga	gha	nga
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• “gae” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “gath” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “3 goth” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “ga” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• "ga" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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Japanese

Romanization

ga

1. Rōmaji transcription of が
2. Rōmaji transcription of ガ

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Lojban

Cmavo

ga

1. (conjunction, logical connective) either/or

Usage notes

• This is a coordinating conjunction: ga ... gi ... means either ... or ... or both.
• This is a logical connective corresponding to prefix OR (with gi acting as a separator between its two following terms).
• This is a so-called "forethought connective". Its corresponding "afterthought connective" is ja or .ija.

See also

• ganai
• ge
• genai
• gi
• go
• gonai
• gu

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡa]

Adverb

ga

1. when

Synonyms

• gdy

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Mandarin

Romanization

ga

1. Nonstandard spelling of gā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of gá.
3. Nonstandard spelling of gǎ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of gà.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Manx

Conjunction

ga

1. though, although
   • V'eh yn fer toshee dy feer, ga nagh row yn ennym er. He was leader in deed though not in name.
2. albeit

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Middle Dutch

Verb

gâ

1. inflection of gâen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person and third-person singular present subjunctive

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• gav

Verb

ga

1. simple past of gi

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Scottish Gaelic

Pronoun

ga

1. him, it (direct object)

   Bha sinn ga thuigsinn. ― We understood it.

2. her, it (direct object)

   Cha bhi mi ga tachairt. ― I won't be meeting her.

Usage notes

• As him/it lenites the following word.
• As her/it adds the prefix h- to the following word if it begins with a vowel.

  An robh thu ga h-ithe? ― Did you eat it?

Related terms

Related terms

• gad
• gam
• gan
• gar

• gur
• e
• i

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronoun

ga (Cyrillic spelling га)

1. of him (clitic genitive singular of ȏn (“he”))
2. him (clitic accusative singular of ȏn (“he”))
3. of it (clitic genitive singular of òno (“it”))
4. it (clitic accusative singular of òno (“it”))

Declension

    Inflection of 3rd-person pronouns

	Singular			Plural
	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	ȏn	òna	òno	òni	òne	òna
genitive	njȅga, ga	njȇ, je	njȅga, ga	njȋh, ih	njȋh, ih	njȋh, ih
dative	njȅmu, mu	njȏj, joj	njȅmu, mu	njȉma, im	njȉma, im	njȉma, im
accusative	njȅga, ga, nj	njȗ, ju, je, nju	njȅga, ga, nj	njȋh, ih	njȋh, ih	njȋh, ih
vocative	-	-	-	-	-	-
locative	njȅm, njȅmu	njȏj	njȅm, njȅmu	njȉma	njȉma	njȉma
instrumental	njȋm, njíme	njȏm, njóme	njȋm, njíme	njȉma	njȉma	njȉma

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Venetian

Verb

ga

1. third-person singular present indicative of gaver

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɣaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɣaː˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɣaː˧˥]

Etymology 1

Borrowing from French gare

Noun

ga

1. train station

Etymology 2

Borrowing from French gaz

Noun

ga

1. (for a gas stove) gas
2. (for a lighter) lighter fluid

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Welsh

Verb

ga

1. Soft mutation of ca.

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Zazaki

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓw.

Noun

ga (gu) ?

1. bull
2. (astronomy, astrology) Taurus

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Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *p.qaːᴬ (“leg”). Cognate with Lao ຂາ (khā), Thai ขา (kǎa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ka˨˦/
• Tone numbers: ga¹
• Hyphenation: ga

Noun

ga (old orthography ga, Sawndip forms 𮛑, 胩, 跏, 軻)

1. (anatomy) leg
2. leg (of a chair, table, etc.)

Classifier

ga (old orthography ga)

1. quarter of (a butchered four-legged animal)
2. one of a pair of long, thin objects (shoes, socks, gloves, chopsticks, etc.)