galga

galga

1. brake

From Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌲𐌰 (galga, “stake, pole”), from Proto-Germanic *galgô (“pole, stake, cross”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰAlgʰ-, *ǵʰAlg- (“perch, long switch”). Cognate with Old High German galgo, Old Frisian galga, Old English ġealga (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse galgi (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse gelgja (“pole, perch”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡalɡa̝/

galga f (plural galgas)

1. gauge
2. opening in the traditional car wheel.
3. staple
4. frozen wind
5. flat rolling downhill stone

galga

1. Romanization of 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌲𐌰

• kalka (1898: Richard Phillips, ‘Vocabulary of Australian Aborigines in the neighbourhood of Cooktown, North Queensland’. The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 27)

From Proto-Paman *kalka, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *kalka.

• IPA^(key): /ɡalɡa/

galga

1. spear

• gandul (avoidance language)

• banydyarr
• digarra
• murranggal
• yinba

• 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.

• Rhymes: -awɡa

galga

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of galgar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of galgar

galga f (plural galgas)

1. greyhound