gau

• ghau

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʊ/

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• Rhymes: -aʊ
• Homophone: Gow

gau (plural gaus)

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

• AGU, Aug, Aug., GUA, UGA, aug

• gai

Unknown.

• IPA^(key): /ɡau̯/, [ɡau̯]

gau inan

1. night

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

• gaut, go

• IPA^(key): /ɡo/

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• Rhymes: -o

gau m (plural gaux)

1. (slang) louse

Inherited from Romani gav.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɑu][1][2]

gau m (nominative plural gaave)

1. village[1]

• 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 1796-041X, retrieved February 10, 2022, page 12

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡaw/, [ɡɔw]

gau

1. nine

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

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡau̯/, [ɡäu̯]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡau̯/, [ɡäːu̯]

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.

Indeclinable noun.

• “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

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʊ̯/

gau

1. quick

gau

1. chew

• gagau

From Old Norse gauð.

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

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

• gaua, gaue (verb)

• “gau” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• aug, aug., uga

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

gau

1. quickly; swiftly
2. soon; at once

• Rhymes: -aɨ̯

Cognate with Cornish gow, Breton gaou.

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

1. false, fake

   Synonym: ffals

• euog (“guilty”)

Mutated form of cau (“to close”).

gau

1. Soft mutation of cau.

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

gau

1. quickly

   Synonym: rap

2. soon

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