gá

• gigágá, gá-gá

An onomatopoeia.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡaː]

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• Rhymes: -ɡaː

gá

1. honk (representation of the sound of a goose)
   • 1954, Lőrinc Szabó, Falusi hangverseny (Village concert)‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 October 2018:

     Gá! Gá! Gá! / Szalad világgá / Liba mama, ha a Csacsi / rábőg, hogy I-á!

     Honk! Honk! Honk! / Running far away / mama Goose, when the Donkey / brays at her Hee-haw!

• IPA^(key): /kauː/
• Rhymes: -auː

Inherited from Old Norse gá, from Proto-Germanic *ganhāną.

gá (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gáði, supine gáð)

1. (intransitive) to look, to see, to check

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Looks like a nominal of Etymology 1.”)

gá f (genitive singular gár, no plural)

1. care, caution

   Synonyms: aðgát, varúð

• gálaus (“careless”)
• gáleysi (“carelessness”)

Of onomatopoeic origin.

gá f (genitive singular gár, no plural)

1. bark, barking

   Synonyms: gjamm, gelt

• gábh, gábhadh
• gádh (obsolete)

From Middle Irish gád (“danger, need”).^[1]

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ɡɑː/^[2]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡaː/

gá m (genitive singular gá)

1. need, requirement

   Ní gá duit imeacht.

   You don’t need to go; you don’t have to go.

   Ní gá dom glaoch orthu.

   I don’t need to call them.

• (need): feidhm, gátar, riachtanas

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “gáḃaḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 342
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• ga — nonstandard

gá (ga², Zhuyin ㄍㄚˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 尜
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 軋 / 轧
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 釒 / 钅
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 錷
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 钄
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 噶

Verbal noun of geyja (“to bark”).

gá f

1. barking
2. scoffing, denouncing

• goðgá (“blasphemy”, literally “god-scoffing”)

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “gá”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 161; also available at the Internet Archive

From Proto-Germanic *ganhāną.

gá f

1. attention

Often in compounds, such as úgá or gáleysi

gá (singular past indicative gáði, plural past indicative gáðu, past participle gát)

1. to heed

   (with infinitive) (about verbs)

   (about nouns) [with genitive]

   • guðs hann gáði

     he gave heed to God

   • gá sín

     to take care of oneself

   • glýja þú né gáðir

     thou hadst no mind for joy

• Icelandic: gá
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gå

• J.Fritzners ordbok over Det gamle norske sprog, dvs. norrøn ordbok ("J.Fritnzer's dictionary of the old Norwegian language, i.e. Old Norse dictionary"), on gá.
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “gá”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 161; also available at the Internet Archive

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 假 (SV: giả) (Baxter and Sagart, 2014: 98).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɣaː˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɣaː˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɣaː˦˥]

gá

1. (now literary) to make someone temporarily have a shelter

   Chả biết cơn bão ấy có đi qua để cha con chúng tôi gá tạm qua ngày không ― We are longing that the storm wouldn't last long, so we can have a one-time shelter to dwell.

2. (rather dated) to lend an agent one's item for some money in exchange; to pawn

   Synonym: cầm đồ

3. (woodworking) to make something attached and aligned onto a lathe