gah
English
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[1], archived from the original on 20 January 2009:
- “And stop calling it soccerball! gah! do any of the tickets say soccerball? no!“”
See also
Anagrams
Azerbaijani
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɟɑh]
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.
Chipewyan
Etymology
Noun
gah
Navajo
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)
References
- Young, Robert W & William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM: 1987.
Pali
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit गृह् (gṛh).
Root
gah (Pali name gaha)
Usage notes
The initial consonant tends to geminate after prefixes. Nasals after the root may be retroflexed.
Derived terms
Non-present participles, gerundives, absolutives and infinitives
Sekani
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.
South Slavey
Etymology
From Proto-Athabaskan *gax̣. Cognates include Navajo gah and Dogrib gah.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kà(h)]
- Hyphenation: gah
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.
References
- Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 99
Western Apache
Noun
gah