gah
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Interjection
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, archived from the original on 20 January 2009:
- “And stop calling it soccerball! gah! do any of the tickets say soccerball? no!“”
Anagrams
Etymology
Pronunciation
Conjunction
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
- “gah” in Obastan.com.
Etymology
Noun
gah
References
- Young, Robert W & William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM: 1987.
Etymology
Cognate with Tsuut'ina nitłʼadigha, Chipewyan gah, Beaver gaah, Carrier goh, Sekani gah, Ahtna ggax, Tlingit g̱áx̱ and South Slavey gah.
Noun
gah
Derived terms
- gahtsoh (hare)
Etymology
Root
gah (Pali name gaha)
Usage notes
The initial consonant tends to geminate after prefixes. Nasals after the root may be retroflexed.
Derived terms
Verbs
Non-present participles, gerundives, absolutives and infinitives
Nouns
Etymology
Noun
gah
References
- Young, Robert W & William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM: 1987.
Etymology
From Proto-Athabaskan *gax̣. Cognates include Navajo gah and Dogrib gah.
Pronunciation
Noun
gah (stem -gah-)
Inflection
| 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. | |||
Possessive inflection of gah (-gahé)
References
- Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 99
Noun
gah
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