gañen
Galician
Verb
gañen
- inflection of gañar:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative
Garifuna
Etymology
Likely an old compound of Garifuna gayu (“chicken, fowl”) and an obsolete word meaning “egg”. Compare also Kalinago gą́ie (“chicken's egg”), which Taylor (1951) analyzes as a compound of gáiu (“chicken, fowl”, from Spanish gallo) + ę́u (“egg”, having possessive form -ę).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡaɲẽ/
Noun
gañen
Inflection
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| first | nigañe | wagañe | |
| second | bigañe | higañe | |
| third | masculine | feminine | hagañe |
| ligañe | tigañe | ||
References
- Taylor, Douglas (1951) “Morphophonemics of Island Carib (Central American Dialect)”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 17, number 4, pages 224-234.
Spanish
Verb
gañen
- third-person plural present indicative of gañir