rega

rega

See also: Rega, réga, regá, and reĝa

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈrə.ɡə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ.ɡə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈre.ɡa/

Etymology 1

From Gaulish *rica (“furrow”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸrikā. Cognate with French raie.

Noun

rega f (plural regues)

1. furrow

   Synonym: solc

2. ladder (UK), run (US) (a length of unravelled fabric in a stocking, etc.)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

rega

1. third-person singular present indicative form of regar
2. second-person singular imperative form of regar

Further reading

• “rega” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Iban

Etymology

From Malay harga, from Sanskrit अर्घ (argha).

Noun

rega

1. price

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Javanese

Etymology

From Sanskrit अर्घ (argha).

Noun

rega

1. price

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kurega as an equivalent of English refuse in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba gulea as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾɛɣa/

Verb

rega (infinitive kũrega)

1. to refuse

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

• mũrega akĩĩrwo ndaregaga akĩhetwo
• mũ(ũ)ragwo tũhũ ndaregagwo nĩ hiti

See also

• kũima

References

1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 50–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 362. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Anagrams

• gera

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈr͈ʲeɣa/

Verb

rega

1. first-person singular future absolute of téit

·rega

1. third-person singular future conjunct of téit

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
rega also rrega after a proclitic	rega pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡɐ/ [ˈhɛ.ɡɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡɐ/ [ˈhɛ.ɡɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡɐ/ [ˈχɛ.ɡɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡa/ [ˈhɛ.ɡa]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛ.ɡɐ/ [ˈʁɛ.ɣɐ]

• Hyphenation: re‧ga

Etymology 1

Deverbal from regar.

Noun

rega f (plural regas)

1. irrigation

Verb

rega

1. inflection of regar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *räkä.

Noun

rega

1. snot

Inflection

Inflection of rega (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	rega
genitive sing.	regan
partitive sing.	regad
partitive plur.	regoid
	singular	plural
nominative	rega	regad
accusative	regan	regad
genitive	regan	regoiden
partitive	regad	regoid
essive-instructive	regan	regoin
translative	regaks	regoikš
inessive	regas	regoiš
elative	regaspäi	regoišpäi
illative	regaha	regoihe
adessive	regal	regoil
ablative	regalpäi	regoilpäi
allative	regale	regoile
abessive	regata	regoita
comitative	reganke	regoidenke
prolative	regadme	regoidme
approximative I	reganno	regoidenno
approximative II	regannoks	regoidennoks
egressive	regannopäi	regoidennopäi
terminative I	regahasai	regoihesai
terminative II	regalesai	regoilesai
terminative III	regassai	—
additive I	regahapäi	regoihepäi
additive II	regalepäi	regoilepäi

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “сопли”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika