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English
[edit]Interjection
[edit]gah
- 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!“”
Anagrams
[edit]Azerbaijani
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]gah
- Used to denote repeated alternation of enumerated actions, events or objects.
- Gah belə deyir, gah elə.
- Sometimes he says this, sometimes that.
- Gah sola gedir, gah sağa, özü bilmir hara getsin.
- He walks left, then he walks right, he doesn't know where to go himself.
Further reading
[edit]- “gah” in Obastan.com.
Chipewyan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]gah
References
[edit]- Young, Robert W & William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM: 1987.
Navajo
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Tsuut'ina nitłʼadigha, Chipewyan gah, Beaver gaah, Carrier goh, Sekani gah, Ahtna ggax, Tlingit g̱áx̱ and South Slavey gah.
Noun
[edit]gah
Derived terms
[edit]- gahtsoh (hare)
Pali
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Sanskrit गृह् (gṛh).
Root
[edit]gah (Pali name gaha)
Usage notes
[edit]The initial consonant tends to geminate after prefixes. Nasals after the root may be retroflexed.
Derived terms
[edit]Verbs
Non-present participles, gerundives, absolutives and infinitives
Nouns
Sekani
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]gah
References
[edit]- Young, Robert W & William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM: 1987.
South Slavey
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Athabaskan *gax̣. Cognates include Navajo gah and Dogrib gah.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gah (stem -gah-)
Inflection
[edit]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
[edit]- Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 99
Western Apache
[edit]Noun
[edit]gah
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