gah

See also: gäh and GAH

Translingual

Symbol

gah

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Alekano.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Alekano terms

English

Interjection

gah

1. Expressing exasperation or annoyance.
   • 2009 January 20, Alison Godfrey, quoting Bronwyn Lovejoy, “Coles, Woolworths and IGA workers vent about customers on Facebook”, in Herald Sun‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 January 2009:

     “And stop calling it soccerball! gah! do any of the tickets say soccerball? no!”

See also

• gah dai

Anagrams

• HGA, Hag., agh, gha, hag

Ahtna

Etymology

From gaa (“here”).

Interjection

gah (Western)

1. here!
2. take it!

References

• Kari, James (1990), Ahtna Athabaskan Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 178

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• ga, gaa, goh, goo, go, gòò, gò
• (unsorted) gan, ge, gi, gou

Etymology

From Middle High German gān, gēn, from Old High German gān, gēn, from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”). Cognate with German gehen, English go, Dutch gaan, Low German gan, gahn, Danish and Swedish gå, Crimean Gothic geen.

Pronunciation

• (Zürich) IPA^(key): /ɡ̊ɒː ~ ɡ̊ɑː/ (gah, ga, gaa)
• (Bern) IPA^(key): /ɡ̊aː/ (gah, ga, gaa)
• (Eastern Switzerland) IPA^(key): /ɡ̊ɔː/ (goh, goo, go, gòò)
• (Basel, Basel-Landschaft, Solothurn, Seeland, Oberaargau, northern Emmental, Zürcher Oberland) IPA^(key): /ɡ̊oː/ (closed o) (goh, goo, go)
• (northeastern Schwyz) IPA^(key): /ɡ̊ow/ (gou)

Verb

gah (third-person singular simple present gaht, past participle gange, past subjunctive gieng, auxiliary sii)

1. to go
   • 1908, Meinrad Lienert, ‘s Heiwili, I.5:

     Dr Vater goht und lot's älei.

     The father goes, and leaves her alone.

   • 1978, Rolf Lyssy & Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher, (transcript):

     Ga, mach uf. Schnell, Carlo!

     Go and open the door. Quickly, Carlo!

Usage notes

• This verb is often reduplicated when used with another verb. Take for example the German sentence:

Ich gehe jeden Tag arbeiten. ― I go [to] work every day. (arbeiten "to work" is a verb)

In Swiss German, the form go is attached to the verb for to work (schaffe) (go was originally a preposition meaning "towards", cognate with German gen, a form of gegen with elision, but now it's perceived by speakers as an infinitive of gah, although it's usually written differently from the normal infinitive (gah)).

Ich gang jede Tag go schaffe. ― I go [to] work every day. (Literally: "I go go work every day")

When duplicated in the infinitive or the past participle, gah or gange may be omitted, leaving go and another verb:

Ich bin go poschte (gange) ― I went shopping.

go poschte (gah) ― to go shopping

Conjugation

• The participle may be written ggange.

Conjugation of gah – City of Zürich

infinitive		gah
past participle		gange
auxiliary		haa
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
		i(ch)	du	er/si/es	mir	ihr	si
indicative	present	gang	gahsch	gaht	gönd	gönd	gönd
subjunctive	past	gieng	giengsch	gieng	gienged	gienged	gienged
imperative	affirmative	—	gang	—	—	gönd	—

Conjugation of gah – City of Bern

infinitive		gah
past participle		gange
auxiliary		haa
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
		i(g)	du	är/si/es	mir	dir	si
indicative	present	gah	geisch	geit	gö	göt	gö
subjunctive	past	gieng	giengsch	gieng	gienge	gienget	gienge
imperative	affirmative	—	gah	—	—	göt	—

In the dialect of Urseren, Uri:
Strong:

Conjugation of gaa – Urner dialect

infinitive		gaa
past participle		ggange
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
		ich, i	du	er/si/es	mir	ir	si
indicative	present	gaa	gaasch	gaat	gaa	gäänt, gëënt	gaa
subjunctive	present	gëë, gäng, gängi	gëëesch, gängesch	gëë, gäng, gängi	gëëe, gange	gëëet, gange	gëëe, gange
	past	gieng, giengi	giengesch	gieng, giengi	gienge	gienget	gienge
imperative	affirmative	—	gang	—	—	gänt, gënt	—

Mixed:

Conjugation of gaa – Urner dialect

infinitive		gaa
past participle		ggange
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
		ich, i	du	er/si/es	mir	ir	si
indicative	present	gaa	gaasch	gaat	gaa	gäänt, gëënt	gaa
subjunctive	present	gëë, gäng, gängi	gëëesch, gängesch	gëë, gäng, gängi	gëëe, gange	gëëet, gange	gëëe, gange
	past	gät, gäti	gätesch	gät, gäti	gäte	gätet	gäte
imperative	affirmative	—	gang	—	—	gänt, gënt	—

Further reading

• “ga”, in Wörterbuch Berndeutsch-Deutsch (in German), berndeutsch.ch, 1999–2026
• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 82.

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian گاه.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɟɑh]

Conjunction

gah

1. Used to denote repeated alternation of enumerated actions, events or objects.

   Gah belə deyir, gah elə.

   Sometimes he says this, sometimes that.

   i.e., He keeps changing his opinion.

   Gah sola gedir, gah sağa, özü bilmir hara getsin.

   He walks left, then he walks right, he doesn't know where to go himself.

   i.e. He keeps turning to different directions.

References

• Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “gah”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language]‎^[2] (in Azerbaijani), 2nd edition, volume 2, Baku: Şərq-Qərb

Chipewyan

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *ɢɑx̣. Cognate with Navajo gah.

Noun

gah

1. rabbit

Derived terms

• gahcho

Dogrib

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *ɢɑx̣. Cognate with Navajo gah.

Noun

gah

1. rabbit

Derived terms

• gahzaa (“baby rabbit”)

References

• Dogrib Divisional Board of Education (1996), A Dogrib Dictionary, Rae-Edzo, Northwest Territories, Canada: Dogrib Divisional Board of Education, →ISBN, page 202

Jicarilla

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *ɢɑx̣. Cognate with Navajo gah.

Noun

gah

1. bone

References

• Phone, Wilhelmina; Olson, Maureen; Martinez, Matilda (2007), Axelrod, Melissa, Gómez de García, Lachler, Jordan, editors, Dictionary of Jicarilla Apache / Abáachi Mizaa Iłkeeʼ Siijai, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 287

Navajo

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *ɢɑx̣. Cognate with Tsuut'ina nitłʼadigha, Chipewyan gah, Beaver gaah, Carrier goh, Sekani gah, Ahtna ggax, Tlingit g̱áx̱ and South Slavey gah.

Noun

gah

1. rabbit

Derived terms

• gahtsoh (“hare”)
• Gah Heetʼeʼii (a star cluster)

References

• Young, Robert W & William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM: 1987.

Pali

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit गृह् (gṛh).

Root

gah (Pali name gaha)

1. to seize, to take

Usage notes

The initial consonant tends to geminate after prefixes. Nasals after the root may be retroflexed.

Derived terms

Verbs

• gaṇhati
• gaṇhāti
• niggaṇhati
• niggaṇhāti

Non-present participles, gerundives, absolutives and infinitives

• gahetabba
• gahita
• gahīta
• niggahita
• niggahīta

Nouns

• aggahaṇa
• gaha

Sekani

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *ɢɑx̣. Cognate with Navajo gah.

Noun

gah

1. rabbit

References

• Young, Robert W & William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM: 1987.

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *ɢɑx̣. Cognates include Navajo gah and Dogrib gah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kà(h)]
• Hyphenation: gah

Noun

gah (stem -gah-)

1. rabbit

Inflection

Possessive inflection of gah (-gahé)

		singular	plural
1st person		segahé	naxegahé
2nd person		negahé
3rd person	1)	—	gigahé
	2)	megahé	gogahé
4th person		yegahé
reflexive	sp.	ɂedegahé	kedegahé
	unsp.	degahé
reciprocal		—	ɂełegahé
indefinite		ɂegahé
areal		gogahé

¹⁾ Used when the subject is a group of human beings
and the object is singular.
²⁾ Used when the previous condition does not apply.

References

• Keren Rice (1989), A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 99

Tanacross

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *ɢɑx̣.

Noun

gah

1. rabbit, hare

References

• Arnold, Irene Solomon, Holton, Gary, and Thoman, Rick (2009), Tanacross Learners' Dictionary, Alaska Native Knowledge Network

Western Apache

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *ɢɑx̣.

Noun

gah

1. rabbit