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See also:Appendix:Variations of "gau"

Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping ofEnglishGadaba withu as a placeholder, influenced byGutob.

Symbol

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gau

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

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English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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gau (pluralgaus)

  1. (Tibetan Buddhism) Aprayer box or smallcontainer worn asjewelry and containing anamulet or similar item.

Etymology 2

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EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
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From eitherHokkien厚(kāu,“thick”) orTeochew厚(gao6,“thick”), influenced in spelling byMandarinPinyin.

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Adjective

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gau (notcomparable)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial, ofcoffee)Strong(used as a modifier afterkopi(“coffee”)).
    KopiGau ―Strong coffee with sugar and condensed milk
  2. (Singapore, colloquial, more generally, less common)Thick; having a strong or overwhelmingflavour.
    • 2019 August 24, Yeo Boon Ping, quoting Zachary Tang, “If Zi Char Dishes Were In A Battle Royale, Which Would Come Out Tops?”, inricemedia.co‎[3], archived fromthe original on12 July 2024:
      But for all the eggs andliao (ingredients) you have, it isn’tgao (strong).
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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gau

  1. Alternative form ofjow(“a pre-metric unit of length in India”).

Etymology 4

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FromGermanGau, fromMiddle High Germangöu,gou, fromOld High Germangawi.

Noun

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gau (pluralgausorgaue)

  1. District, region.

Anagrams

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Achang

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Achang numbers(edit)
 ←  8910  → 
   Cardinal:gau

Etymology

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FromProto-Sino-Tibetan*tə-ŋguʔ.

Pronunciation

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  • (Myanmar)/ɡɑu˧/
  • (Longchuan)[kau³¹]
  • (Luxi)[kʰjau⁵¹]
  • (Xiandao)[kau³¹]

Numeral

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gau

  1. nine

Further reading

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  • Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005),A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎[4], Payap University, page33

Basque

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unknown.

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Noun

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gau inan

  1. night

Declension

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Declension ofgau(inan V-stem)
indefinitesingularpluralproximal plural
absolutivegaugauagauakgauok
ergativegaukgauakgauekgauok
dativegaurigauarigaueigauoi
genitivegaurengauarengauengauon
comitativegaurekingauarekingauekingauokin
causativegaurengatikgauarengatikgauengatikgauongatik
benefactivegaurentzatgauarentzatgauentzatgauontzat
instrumentalgauezgauazgauezgauotaz
innesivegautangaueangauetangauotan
locativegautakogauekogauetakogauotako
allativegautaragaueragauetaragauotara
terminativegautarainogauerainogauetarainogauotaraino
directivegautarantzgauerantzgauetarantzgauotarantz
destinativegautarakogauerakogauetarakogauotarako
ablativegautatikgauetikgauetatikgauotatik
partitivegaurik———
prolativegautzat———

Derived terms

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Descendants

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French

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Noun

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gau m (pluralgaux)

  1. (slang)louse

Kalo Finnish Romani

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Noun

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gau m (nominative pluralgaave)

  1. village[1]

References

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  1. ↑1.01.1Kimmo Granqvist (2002), “Finnish Romani Phonology and Dialect Geography”, inSKY Journal of Linguistics‎[1], volume15, Linguistic Association of Finland, archived fromthe original on28 January 2022, pages61-83
  2. ^Kimmo Granqvist (2011), “Diftongit ja vokaaliyhtymät”, inLyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi [Consice grammar of Finnish Romani]‎[2] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland,→ISBN,→ISSN, retrieved10 February 2022, page 5

Further reading

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  • Kimmo Granqvist (2011), “Eräitä keskeisiä äännevaihteluja”, inLyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi [Consice grammar of Finnish Romani]‎[5] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland,→ISBN,→ISSN, retrieved10 February 2022, page12

Latin

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Etymology

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Poeticclipping ofgaudium. Attributed toEnnius (circa 200BCE) by the poetAusonius in his catalogue of monosyllabic Latin words, never attested directly.

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Noun

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gau n (indeclinable)(archaic, poetic, hapax legomenon)

  1. clipping ofgaudium(“joy”)
    • c. 310CE –c. 395CE,Ausonius,Technopaegnion144:
      Ennius ut memorat,repleat te laetificumgau.
      As Ennius says,may gladdeningjoy fill you.

Declension

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Indeclinable noun.

singularplural
nominativegaugau
genitivegaugau
dativegaugau
accusativegaugau
ablativegaugau
vocativegaugau

References

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  • “gau”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “gau”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “gau” in volume 6, part 2, column 1701, line 34 in theThesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

Low German

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Etymology

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FromProto-Germanic*ganhuz,*ganhwaz(“sudden, quick”), of unknown origin. Cognate withDutchgauw(“quickly”),Germanjäh(“sudden, abrupt”). More atgay.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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gau

  1. quick

Niuean

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Verb

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gau

  1. chew

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsegauð.

Noun

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gau n (definite singulargauet,indefinite pluralgau,definite pluralgaua)

  1. abark
  2. (collective)barking
  3. noise

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Saterland Frisian

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Etymology

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FromOld Frisiangā, fromProto-Germanic*ganhuz. More atgay.

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Adverb

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gau

  1. quickly;swiftly
  2. soon;at once

Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromProto-Celtic*gāwā(“falsehood, lie”), perhaps fromProto-Indo-European*gʰeH₂u-(“to be faulty, at fault, lacking”). Cognate withCornishgow,Bretongaou; outside of Celtic, compareLatinhaud(“scarcely, hardly”),Avestan𐬔𐬀𐬎(gau,“to commit a sin; to promote”).

Adjective

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gau (feminine singulargau,pluralgeuon,equativegeued,comparativegeuach,superlativegeuaf)

  1. false,fake
    Synonyms:ffals,ffugiol,celwyddog
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Mutation

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Mutated forms ofgau
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
gauaungauunchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Etymology 2

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Mutated form ofcau(“to close”).

Verb

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gau

  1. soft mutation ofcau

Mutation

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Mutated forms ofcau
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
caugaunghauchau

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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  • D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “gau”, inGweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke,et al., editors (1950–present), “gau”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  • Matasović, Ranko (2009),Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden:Brill,→ISBN,page154
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007),Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN, page95

West Frisian

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Etymology

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FromOld Frisiangā, fromProto-Germanic*ganhuz.

Adverb

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gau

  1. quickly
    Synonym:rap
  2. soon

Further reading

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  • “gau (I)”, inWurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch),2011
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