gae
See also: gãe, gæ, gä̑, and GAE
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡeː/
Noun
gae m (genitive singular gae, nominative plural gaethe)
- (archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of ga (“spear, dart; ray”)
Declension
Declension of gae
Fourth declension
Bare forms
| Forms with the definite article
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Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
gae | ghae | ngae |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “gae”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *gaisos.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡai̯/
Noun
gae m
- spear
Inflection
Due to the word's unusual historical structure (the stem having /ai̯/ followed by a lost s) the spellings gae and gai are in fact interchangeable for all forms where they appear.
Masculine o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | gae | gaeL | gaiL |
Vocative | gai | gaeL | gauH |
Accusative | gaeN | gaeL | gauH |
Genitive | gaiL | gae | gaeN |
Dative | gaeL | gaib | gaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Irish: ga
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
gae | gae pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/ | ngae |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*gayso-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 154
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scots
Etymology 1
From Middle English gon, goon, from Old English gān (“to go”).
Cognates
Cognate with English go, West Frisian gean, Low German gahn, Dutch gaan, German gehen, Swedish and Danish gå, Norwegian gå.
Verb
gae
- to go
- 1861, Various, The Golden Treasury:
- O waly waly, up the bank, And waly waly down the brae, And waly waly yon burn-side Where I and my Love wont to gae!
- Woe woe, up the bank, And woe woe down the hill
- 1884, Alexander Leighton, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17:
- Gae awa, gae awa — I canna thole the very thochts o' the story whilk thou ettles to ken.
- Go away, go away — I cannot deal with the very thoughts of the story which you are trying to know.
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Verb
gae
- simple past tense of gie
- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality, Illustrated, Volume 1.:
- Eh, Mr Henry! but the carle gae them a screed o' doctrine!
- Hey, Mr Henry! but the man gave them a piece of doctrine!
- 1918, J. M. Barrie, A Window in Thrums:
- Chirsty was in Tilliedrum last Teisday or Wednesday, an' Tibbie gae her a cup o' tea.
- Chirsty was in Tilliedrum last Tuesday or Wednesday, and Tibbie gave her a cup of tea.
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Swahili
FWOTD – 10 June 2017
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɠɑ.ɛ/
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun
gae (ma class, plural magae)
- potsherd (broken piece of pottery)
- 1994, Historia fupi ya Zanzibar, p. 24:
- Sakafu iliinuliwa kwa mchanga kiasi cha nusu mita na misingi ya msikiti ilichimbwa ndani ya tabaka za ardhi za miaka iliyopita zenye takataka na kujumuisha magae ya vyombo vya "Celado" na vya rangi manjano na mapambo meusi.
- 1994, Historia fupi ya Zanzibar, p. 24:
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ɡaːɨ̯/
- (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈɡai̯/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈɡaː/
Noun
gae
- Soft mutation of cae (“field”).
Verb
gae
- Soft mutation of cae (“(s/he) closes, shuts”).
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
cae | gae | nghae | chae |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English gaf.
Verb
gae
- simple past tense of gee (“give”)
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 41