gau

English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• ghau

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʊ/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aʊ
• Homophone: Gow

Noun

gau (plural gaus)

1. (Tibetan Buddhism) A prayer box or small container worn as jewelry and containing an amulet or similar item.

Etymology 2

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Kopi (drink)

Wikipedia

From either Hokkien 厚 (kāu, “thick”) or Teochew 厚 (gao⁶, “thick”), influenced in spelling by Mandarin Pinyin.

Alternative forms

• gao

Pronunciation

• (Singapore) IPA^(key):
  • The is unaspirated.

Adjective

gau (not comparable)

1. (Singapore, colloquial, of coffee) The template Template:cap does not use the parameter(s):

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   Kopi Gau ― Strong coffee with sugar and condensed milk

Related terms

Etymology 3

Noun

gau

1. Alternative form of jow (“pre-metric unit of length in India”)

Anagrams

• AGU, Aug, Aug., GUA, UGA, aug

Basque

Alternative forms

• gai

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /ɡau̯/,

Noun

gau inan

1. night

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Gascon: gaüs, gahús, guèhus, guehús, cahús, caüs, gohús

French

Alternative forms

• gaut, go

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡo/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -o

Noun

gau m (plural gaux)

1. (slang) louse

Kalo Finnish Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Romani gav.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

gau m (nominative plural gaave)

1. village

References

Further reading

• Kimmo Granqvist (2011) “Eräitä keskeisiä äännevaihteluja”, in Lyhyt Suomen romanikielen kielioppi [Consice grammar of Finnish Romani]‎ (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland, →ISBN, →ISSN, retrieved February 10, 2022, page 12

Lashi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d/s-kəw. Cognates include Nuosu ꈬ (ggu) and Burmese ကိုး (kui:).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaw/,

Numeral

gau

1. nine

References

• Mark Wannemacher (2011) A phonological overview of the Lacid language‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University.

Latin

Etymology

Poetic clipping of gaudium. Attributed to Ennius (circa 200 BCE) by the poet Ausonius in his catalogue of monosyllabic Latin words, never attested directly.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡau̯/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡau̯/,

Noun

gau n (indeclinable) (archaic, poetic, hapax)

1. Clipping of gaudium (“joy”).
   • c. 310 CE – c. 395 CE, Ausonius, Technopaegnion 144:

     Ennius ut memorat, repleat te laetificum gau.

     As Ennius says, may gladdening joy fill you.

Declension

Indeclinable noun.

References

• “gau”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gau in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “gau” in volume 6, part 2, column 1701, line 34 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

Low German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudden, quick”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Dutch gauw (“quickly”), German jäh (“sudden, abrupt”). More at gay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʊ̯/

Adjective

gau

1. quick

Niuean

Verb

gau

1. chew

Derived terms

• gagau

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gauð.

Noun

gau n (definite singular gauet, indefinite plural gau, definite plural gaua)

1. a bark
2. (collective) barking
3. noise

Derived terms

• gaua, gaue (verb)

References

• “gau” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• aug, aug., uga

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gā, from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz. More at gay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣaːu̯/
• Hyphenation: gau
• Rhymes: -aːu̯

Adverb

gau

1. quickly; swiftly
2. soon; at once

Welsh

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɨ̯

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *gāwā- (“falsehood, lie”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeH₂u- (“to be faulty, at fault, lacking”). Cognate with Cornish gow, Breton gaou; outside of Celtic, compare Latin haud (“scarcely, hardly”), Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬎 (gau, “to commit a sin; to promote”).

Adjective

gau (feminine singular gau, plural geuon, equative geued, comparative geuach, superlative geuaf)

1. false, fake

   Synonym: ffals

Derived terms

• euog (“guilty”)

Mutation

Etymology 2

Mutated form of cau (“to close”).

Verb

gau

1. Soft mutation of cau.

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gau”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 154
• Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 95

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gā, from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz.

Adverb

gau

1. quickly

   Synonym: rap

2. soon

Further reading

• “gau (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011