gá

• gigágá, gá-gá

An onomatopoeia.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡaː]

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• Rhymes: -ɡaː

gá

1. honk (representation of the sound of a goose)
   • 1954, Lőrinc Szabó, Falusi hangverseny (Village concert)‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 October 2018:

     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

Inherited 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
• gádh (obsolete)

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

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

gá m (genitive singular gá)

1. need, requirement

   Ní gá duit imeacht.

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

   Ní gá dom glaoch orthu.

   I don’t need to call them.

• (need): feidhm, gátar, riachtanas

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gád”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “gáḃaḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 342
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 55

• ga — nonstandard

gá (ga², Zhuyin ㄍㄚˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 尜
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 軋／轧
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 釒／钅
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 錷
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 钄
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 噶

Verbal noun of geyja (“to bark”).

gá f

1. barking
2. scoffing, denouncing

• goðgá (“blasphemy”, literally “god-scoffing”)

• 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.