gá

• gigágá, gá-gá

An onomatopoeia.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡaː]

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gá

1. honk (representation of the sound of a goose)
   • 1954, Lőrinc Szabó, Falusi hangverseny (Village concert)‎:

     Gá! Gá! Gá! / Szalad világgá / Liba mama, ha a Csacsi / rábőg, hogy I-á!

     Honk! Honk! Honk! / Running far away / mama Goose, when the Donkey / brays at her Hee-haw!

• IPA^(key): /kauː/
• Rhymes: -auː

From Old Norse gá, from Proto-Germanic *ganhāną.

gá (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gáði, supine gáð)

1. (intransitive) to look, to see, to check

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gá f (genitive singular gár, no plural)

1. care, caution

   Synonyms: aðgát, varúð

• gálaus (“careless”)
• gáleysi (“carelessness”)

Of onomatopoeic origin.

gá f (genitive singular gár, no plural)

1. bark, barking

   Synonyms: gjamm, gelt

• gábh
• gábhadh[1]
• gádh (obsolete)

From Middle Irish gád (“danger, need”).

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ɡɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡæː/

gá m (genitive singular gá)

1. need, requirement

   Ní gá dhuit imeacht.

   You don’t need to go; you don’t have to go.

• (need): feidhm, gátar, riachtanas

• “gád” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• "gá" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

gá (Zhuyin ㄍㄚˊ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 噵
2. Pinyin transcription of 尜
3. Pinyin transcription of 軋, 轧
4. Pinyin transcription of 釒
5. Pinyin transcription of 錷
6. Pinyin transcription of 钄

From geyja (“to bark”).

gá f

1. barking

• gá in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

From Proto-Germanic *ganhāną

gá f

1. attention

Often in compounds, such as úgá or gáleysi

gá (singular past indicative gáði, plural past indicative gáðu, past participle gát)

1. to heed

   (with infinitive) (about verbs)

   (with genitive) (about nouns)

   • • guðs hann gáði

       he gave heed to God

     • gá sín

       to take care of oneself

     • glýja þú né gáðir

       thou hadst no mind for joy

• Icelandic: gá
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gå

• J.Fritzners ordbok over Det gamle norske sprog, dvs. norrøn ordbok ("J.Fritnzer's dictionary of the old Norwegian language, i.e. Old Norse dictionary"), on gá.
• gá in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.