ngana

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English

Noun

ngana (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of nagana
    • 1908 March 12, John William Watson Stephens, “Sleeping Sickness”, in Nature, volume 77, pages 440–442:
      It is perhaps an exaggeration to say that we know now no more about tsetse-flies than we did when Bruce discovered that Gl. morsitans transmitted the trypanosome (T. brucei) of ngana […]

Anagrams

Gamilaraay

ngana

Pronunciation

Noun

ngana

  1. room
  2. grass windbreak
  3. grass hut

References

  • (2017) Giacon J Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay Dictionary Supplement

Guugu Yimidhirr

Etymology

From Proto-Paman *ngana, from Proto-Pama-Maric *ngana, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *ngana.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ngana

  1. (coastal dialect) we: first person plural nominative pronoun

Usage notes

Most modern speakers use the inland form nganhdhaan, even if they otherwise use coastal words.

Synonyms

References

  • Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
  • Haviland, John B. 1979. ‘Guugu Yimidhirr Sketch Grammar’. R. M. W. Dixon, B. Blake (eds.) Handbook of Australian Languages, Vol I.

Lindu

Noun

ngana

  1. child

Manado Malay

Etymology

From North Moluccan Malay ngana, from Ternate ngana.

Pronoun

ngana

  1. you (singular)

North Moluccan Malay

Etymology

From Ternate ngana.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ngana

  1. you (singular)
    Ngana tara tau apa-apa tentang kita.
    You don't know a thing about me.

Ternate

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ngana (subject clitic no, possessive prefix ni, Jawi ڠان)

  1. second-person singular pronoun, you

See also

Ternate personal pronouns
independent subject proclitic possessive
Informal Formal
1st person singular ngori fangarem, fajaruf to ri
2nd person singular ngana ngoni, jou ngoni no ni
3rd person singular unam, minaf om, mof, inh im, mif, manh
1st person plural inclusive ngone fo na, nga
1st person plural exclusive ngomi fangare ngomim, fajaru ngomif, fara ngomi1 mi mi, mia
2nd person plural ngoni ni na, nia
3rd person plural anah, enanh ih, nh, yoh, †, yanh, † nah, ngah, manh
  • unmarked pronouns are gender non-specific
  • m - masculine, f - feminine, h - human, nh - non-human
  • 1 - for mixed-gender groups
  • † - archaic

References

  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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