-gu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "gu"

Gamilaraay

Suffix

-gu

1. movement to
2. purpose
3. belonging to

   bubaa birraygu

   boy's father.

4. for

Japanese

Romanization

-gu

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぐ

Kwini

Suffix

-gu

1. dative case marker

   ngawa-gu : for water

References

• William McGregor, Gunin / Kwini (1993), pages 38, 53

Laboya

Pronoun

-gu

1. first person singular subject enclitic
2. first person singular possessive enclitic

See also

	Subject	Subject/Possessive	Object
Person
1sg	gu-	-gu	-ga
2sg	mu-	-mu	-gu
3sg	na-	-na	-ni
1pl.incl	da-	-da	-da
1pl.excl	ma-	-ma	-gama
2pl	mi-	-mi	-gimi
3pl	ɗa-	-ɗa	-di

Laboya pronominal clitics

Lithuanian

Etymology

Related to Old Church Slavonic гъ (gŭ, “comparative particle used in негъли (negŭli, “than”)”), of unclear further origin.^[1] Beekes derives the particle from Proto-Indo-European *gʰo ~ *gʰe (discourse particle).^[2]

Pronunciation

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Suffix

-gu^[3]

1. (Old Lithuanian) particle emphasizing a question

   Tu-gu esi ansai, kursai turi ateiti? ― Are you the one, who is to come?

2. used in jéigu (“if”) and negù (“than”)

References

1. Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “gu”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego‎ (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 207
2. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “γε”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 263
3. “-gu”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas, lkz.lt, 1941–2024

Salar

Suffix

-gu

1. Equipping infinitive of verbs.

References

• Yakup Abdurishid (2020). Salar Halkı ve Dilleri (Duygu Ö. Demir, Trans.). Tehlikedeki Diller Dergisi, Çeviriler Dosyası 2-Ek, 151-163.

Turkish

Alternative forms

• -gı, -gi, -gü

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ـگی (-gi), from Old Anatolian Turkish ـکو (-gü), from Proto-Turkic *-gü.

Suffix

-gu

1. Suffix creating a new noun related to its root.

   ‎bulmak (“to find”) + ‎-gu → ‎bulgu (“finding”)

   ‎sormak (“to ask”) + ‎-gu → ‎sorgu (“interrogation”)

   ‎duymak (“to feel, to hear”) + ‎-gu → ‎duygu (“emotion”)

Derived terms

Turkish terms suffixed with -gu

Uneapa

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *-gu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *-ku, from Proto-Austronesian *-ku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ᵑɡu/

Suffix

-gu

1. A first-person singular possessive suffix.

Further reading

• Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 365
• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.