ga-

1. noun prefix

Frances Froman; Alfred J. Keye; Lottie Keye; Carrie Dyck (2002),English-Cayuga/Cayuga-English Dictionary, University of Toronto, page705

Shortened form ofnaga-. Comparenag-.

ga- (contemplativemaga-,mag-,imperativepag-)

1. alternative form ofnag-,naga-

   Galuto ko og utan ―I am cooking vegetables

• Commonly used, as doesnag-, in contrast withnaga- which is only ever used in formal situations or literature.
• See usage notes fornag- andnaga-.

ga-

1. romanization of𐌲𐌰-

ga-

1. form ofda- used after a personal prefix
2. (some speakers)contraction ofgiga-

• ge-
• ji-
• wii-

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionaryhttps://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/ga-pv-tns

ga-

1. alternative form ofgi-

ga-

1. noun prefix

• Hanni Woodbury (2018),A Reference Grammar of the Onondaga Language, University of Toronto, page284

ga-

1. noun prefix

• Wallace Chafe (2014),A Grammar of the Seneca Language, University of California Press, page86

Possibly related togaya(“like;imitated”).

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key): /ɡa/[ɡɐ]
• Syllabification:ga-

ga- (Baybayin spellingᜄ)

1. used to indicate of a similar extremeness in size: asbig as; aslarge as; assmall as; aslittle as; astiny as;

   ‎ga- + ‎bahay(“house”) → ‎gabahay(“as big as a house”)

   ‎ga- + ‎bundok(“mountain”) → ‎gabundok(“as big as a mountain”)

   ‎ga- + ‎bunton(“stack”) → ‎gabunton(“as tall as a stack”)

   ‎ga- + ‎kulangot(“booger”) → ‎gakulangot(“as small as a booger”)

   ‎ga- + ‎tulo(“drop”) → ‎gatulo(“as little as a drop”)

   ‎ga- + ‎butil(“grain”) → ‎gabutil(“as tiny as a grain”)

2. used to indicate similarity:like;similar to

   ‎ga- + ‎nito(“this”) → ‎ganito(“like this”)

   ‎ga- + ‎niyan(“that”) → ‎ganiyan(“like that”)

• gaga-
• gangga-

• (before /e/)ge-
• (before /o/)go-

FromProto-Bantu*gá-.

• IPA^(key): /ɡa-/

ga-

1. class 6 pronominal concord

   ‎ga- + ‎-nu(“this, these”) → ‎ganu(“these (class 6)”)

2. they;class 6 subject concord

   ‎ga- + ‎-kora(“to do”) → ‎gakora(“they (class 6) do”)

3. positive imperative form of-ga-(“them;class 6 object concord”)

   ‎ga- + ‎-ha(“to give”) → ‎gaha(“give them (class 6)”)

• Kaji, Shigeki (2007),A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA),→ISBN, page414

Inherited fromProto-Bantu*gáá-

ga-

1. Class 6 possessive concord.

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