kaga'

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Betawi

Alternative forms

Etymology

From prothetic ka- + ga' (“no, not”), from Javanese ꦒꦏ꧀ (gak, “no, not”). Compare the ka- in Musi katî' (“to not have; there is no; nothing”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaɡaʔ/
  • Rhymes: -aʔ
  • Hyphenation: ka‧ga'

Adverb

kaga'

  1. no; not

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: (Jakarta) kagak, kaga

Verb

kaga'

  1. to not have; to have no

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ McDonnell, B., Tadmor, U. (2015) “Reconstructing negation and negative suppletive existentials in Malayic”, in The Thirteenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 111
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