gae

See also: gãe, gæ, gä̑, and GAE

Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡeː/

Noun

gae m (genitive singular gae, nominative plural gaethe)

  1. (archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of ga (“spear, dart; ray”)

Declension
Declension of gae

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gae gaethe
Vocative a ghae a ghaethe
Genitive gae gaethe
Dative gae gaethe

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an gae na gaethe
Genitive an ghae na ngaethe
Dative leis an ngae

don ghae

 leis na gaethe

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gae ghae ngae
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gaisos.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡai̯/

Noun

gae m

  1. spear

Inflection

Due to the word's unusual historical structure (the stem having /ai̯/ followed by a lost s) the spellings gae and gai are in fact interchangeable for all forms where they appear.

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative gae gaeL gaiL
Vocative gai gaeL gauH
Accusative gaeN gaeL gauH
Genitive gaiL gae gaeN
Dative gaeL gaib gaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants
  • Irish: ga

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
gae gae
pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/		 ngae
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*gayso-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 154

Further reading

Scots

Etymology 1

From Middle English gon, goon, from Old English gān (“to go”).

Cognates
Cognate with English go, West Frisian gean, Low German gahn, Dutch gaan, German gehen, Swedish and Danish gå, Norwegian gå.

Verb

gae

  1. to go
    • 1861, Various, The Golden Treasury‎:
      O waly waly, up the bank, And waly waly down the brae, And waly waly yon burn-side Where I and my Love wont to gae!
      Woe woe, up the bank, And woe woe down the hill
    • 1884, Alexander Leighton, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17‎:
      Gae awa, gae awa — I canna thole the very thochts o' the story whilk thou ettles to ken.
      Go away, go away — I cannot deal with the very thoughts of the story which you are trying to know.

Verb

gae

  1. simple past tense of gie
    • 1816, Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality, Illustrated, Volume 1.‎:
      Eh, Mr Henry! but the carle gae them a screed o' doctrine!
      Hey, Mr Henry! but the man gave them a piece of doctrine!
    • 1918, J. M. Barrie, A Window in Thrums‎:
      Chirsty was in Tilliedrum last Teisday or Wednesday, an' Tibbie gae her a cup o' tea.
      Chirsty was in Tilliedrum last Tuesday or Wednesday, and Tibbie gave her a cup of tea.

Swahili
FWOTD – 10 June 2017

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɠɑ.ɛ/
  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Noun

gae (ma class, plural magae)

  1. potsherd (broken piece of pottery)
    • 1994, Historia fupi ya Zanzibar, p. 24:
      Sakafu iliinuliwa kwa mchanga kiasi cha nusu mita na misingi ya msikiti ilichimbwa ndani ya tabaka za ardhi za miaka iliyopita zenye takataka na kujumuisha magae ya vyombo vya "Celado" na vya rangi manjano na mapambo meusi.

Welsh

Pronunciation

Noun

gae

  1. Soft mutation of cae (“field”).

Verb

gae

  1. Soft mutation of cae (“(s/he) closes, shuts”).

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
cae gae nghae chae
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English gaf.

Verb

gae

  1. simple past tense of gee (“give”)

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 41
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