'a

'a

1. (archaic) Alternative form of a (“he, she, they”)

'a

1. (archaic) Alternative form of a (“have, had”)

'a

1. Alternative form of a (“to”)
   • 1955, Russell Ames, “The Open Road, the Chain Gang, and the Jail”, in The Story of American Folk Song (The Listener’s Music Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, published 1960, →OCLC, page 248:

     Say, these stripes, stripes sure don’t worry me. But these chains, chains goin’ ’a kill me dead.

   • 2009, Jennifer Worth, “The Captain’s Daughter”, in Farewell to the East End, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 237:

     Well, this one’s ’ere all right. Captain’s wife or somefink, the mate says. Least, that’s what I think he’s tryin’ ’a say, because he can’t speak no English.

   • 2014, R[oger] N. Morris, chapter 11, in The Dark Palace (A Silas Quinn Mystery; 3), Sutton, Surrey: Crème de la Crime, →ISBN, Part 1 (Love), page 50:

     So while we’re all distracted tryin’ ’a fix it all – that’s when they strike.

’a f sg

1. (Quebec, informal) Contraction of la.

• IPA^(key): /ʔa/

'a

1. fall
2. fruit
3. egg

'a (intransitive, irregular)

1. to fall
2. to be born
3. to fructify
4. to like someone

'a

1. fruit

'a

1. hair

'a

1. to fall, to tumble
2. to get caught (e.g. in a trap)
3. to lose (to fail to win)

• Robert A. Dooley (2016 August) “'a”, in Léxico guarani, dialeto mbyá: guarani-português (overall work in Portuguese), Anápolis: SIL Brasil, page 3

From Old Neapolitan la.

'a f (definite)

1. the

'a f

1. her (accusative)

From Old Neapolitan da, from Latin de ab.

• a

'a

1. from
2. by (indicating the actor in a passive voice)
3. to (something that has to be done)

• â
• 'e
• ll'
• 'o

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: 'a

From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔa (“fruit, head”), from Proto-Tupian *ʔa (“fruit, head”).^[1][2][3]

Cognate wirh Sateré-Mawé 'a and Guaraní 'a.

'a (possessable)

1. (chiefly in compounds) head (part of the body)

   Synonym: akanga

2. glans penis

   Synonym: 'ayîá

3. fruit

   Synonym: 'ybá

4. (vocative, in reverence) dude; bro term of address for a man
5. (vocative, in reverence) companion; comrade; term of address for a friend
6. (vocative, in reverence) sir; term of address for an old man

Apocopic form of 'ar.

'a (first-person singular active indicative a'a, first-person singular negative active indicative n'a'aî, noun 'ara) (intransitive)

1. (São Vicente) Alternative form of 'ar

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “'a”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 3, column 1

'a f sg (plural le)

1. the