rega

See also: Rega, réga, regá, and reĝa

Catalan

Verb

rega

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of regar
  2. second-person singular imperative form of regar

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kurega as an equivalent of English refuse in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba gulea as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɾɛɣa/

Verb

rega (infinitive kũrega)

  1. to refuse

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

  • mũrega akĩĩrwo ndaregaga akĩhetwo
  • mũ(ũ)ragwo tũhũ ndaregagwo nĩ hiti

See also

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 50–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 362. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Anagrams

Novial

Etymology

Derived from rege (“monarch, king or queen”)

Root: reg-

Morphemes: reg- +‎ -a

Noun

rega f (plural regas)

  1. queen
  • rege (“monarch”, noun)
  • rego (“king”, noun)
  • regia (“kingdom”, noun)
  • regira (“reign”, verb)
  • regido (“royal prince”, noun)
  • regida (“royal princess”, noun)
  • viserego (“viceroy”, noun)
  • regal (“regal, royal”, adjective)
  • regonal (“kingly”, adjective)
  • reganal (“queenly”, adjective)

Old Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈr͈ʲeɣa/

Verb

rega

  1. first-person singular future absolute of téit

·rega

  1. third-person singular future conjunct of téit

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
rega
also rrega after a proclitic		 rega
pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/		 rega
also rrega after a proclitic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Portuguese

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin rigare.

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: re‧ga

Noun

rega f (plural regas)

  1. irrigation

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish räkä.

Noun

rega

  1. snot

Inflection
Inflection of rega
nominative sing. rega
genitive sing. regan
partitive sing. regad
partitive plur. regoid
singular plural
nominative rega regad
accusative regan regad
genitive regan regoiden
partitive regad regoid
essive-instructive regan regoin
translative regaks regoikš
inessive regas regoiš
elative regaspäi regoišpäi
illative ? regoihe
adessive regal regoil
ablative regalpäi regoilpäi
allative regale regoile
abessive regata regoita
comitative reganke regoidenke
prolative regadme regoidme
approximative I reganno regoidenno
approximative II regannoks regoidennoks
egressive regannopäi regoidennopäi
terminative I ? regoihesai
terminative II regalesai regoilesai
terminative III regassai —
additive I ? regoihepäi
additive II regalepäi regoilepäi

References
  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “сопли”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
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