ga-

ga-

1. noun prefix

Frances Froman, Alfred J. Keye, Lottie Keye, Carrie Dyck (2002) English-Cayuga/Cayuga-English Dictionary, University of Toronto, page 705

Shortened form of naga-. Compare nag-.

ga- (contemplative maga-, mag-, imperative pag-)

1. alternative form of nag-, naga-

   Galuto ko og utan ― I am cooking vegetables

• Commonly used, as does nag-, in contrast with naga- which is only ever used in formal situations or literature.
• See usage notes for nag- and naga-.

ga-

1. romanization of 𐌲𐌰-

ga-

1. form of da- used after a personal prefix
2. (some speakers) contraction of giga-

• ge-
• ji-
• wii-

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

ga-

1. alternative form of gi-

ga-

1. noun prefix

• Hanni Woodbury (2018) A Reference Grammar of the Onondaga Language, University of Toronto, page 284

ga-

1. noun prefix

• Wallace Chafe (2014) A Grammar of the Seneca Language, University of California Press, page 86

Possibly related to gaya (“like; imitated”).

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

ga- (Baybayin spelling ᜄ)

1. used to indicate of a similar extremeness in size: as big as; as large as; as small as; as little as; as tiny 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-

From Proto-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, page 414

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *gáá-

ga-

1. Class 6 possessive concord.