different between gau vs dau

English

Alternative forms

• ghau

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophone: Gow

Noun

gau (plural gaus)

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

Anagrams

• AGU, Aug, Aug., GUA, UGA, aug

Basque

Alternative forms

• gai

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /?au/

Noun

gau inan

1. night

Declension

Derived terms

French

Alternative forms

• gaut, go

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o/
• Rhymes: -o

Noun

gau m (plural gaux)

1. (slang) louse

Kalo Finnish Romani

Noun

gau m

1. village

Derived terms

Lashi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d/s-k?w. Cognates include Sichuan Yi ? (ggu) and Burmese ???? (kui:).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?aw/, [??w]

Numeral

gau

1. nine

References

• Mark Wannemacher (2011) A phonological overview of the Lacid language?^[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?au?/, [?äu?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?au?/, [??u?]

Noun

gau n (indeclinable) (archaic, poetic, hapax)

1. Clipping of gaudium (“joy”).
   • c. 310 C.E. – c. 395 C.E., Ausonius, Technopaegnion 144:

     Ennius ut memorat, repleat te laetificum gau.

     As Ennius says, may gladdening joy fill you.

Declension

Indeclinable noun.

References

• 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 VI 2, column 1701, line 34 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

Low German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??/

Adjective

gau

1. quick

Niuean

Verb

gau

1. chew

Derived terms

• gagau

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gauð.

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

• gaua, gaue (verb)

References

• “gau” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• aug, aug., uga

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

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

Adverb

gau

1. quickly; swiftly
2. soon; at once

Welsh

Etymology 1

Cognate with Cornish gow, Breton gaou.

Adjective

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

1. false, fake

   Synonym: ffals

Derived terms

• euog (“guilty”)

Mutation

Etymology 2

Mutated form of cau (“to close”).

Verb

gau

1. Soft mutation of cau.

Mutation

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian g?, from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz.

Adverb

gau

1. quickly

   Synonym: rap

2. soon

Further reading

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

English

Noun

dau

1. (genealogy) Abbreviation of daughter. (often with implied 'of')

   Jane, dau John

Anagrams

• ADU, AUD, Adu, Au.D., Dua, UDA, Uda, aud., du'a', dua

Anus

Noun

dau

1. leaf

References

• George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin d?. Compare Daco-Romanian da, dau.

Verb

dau (third-person singular present indicative da, past participle datã)

1. I give.

Related terms

Bonggo

Noun

dau

1. leaf

References

• George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

Catalan

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; perhaps of Arabic origin, cf. ????????? (?a?d?d), or alternatively from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dare (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh?- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Compare French dé, Italian dado, Spanish and Portuguese dado.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?daw/
• Rhymes: -aw

Noun

dau m (plural daus)

1. die (polyhedron with symbols on each side)
2. (castells) vent (position in the pinya)

Kapampangan

Etymology

Compare Tagalog dao.

Noun

dau

1. dao (Dracontomelon dao).

Laboya

Noun

dau

1. year

References

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011) , “dau”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 14

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse dauðr

Adjective

dau (masculine and feminine dau, neuter daut, definite singular and plural daue)

1. (dialectal) dead

Alternative forms

• daud, død

References

• “dau” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “dau” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Occitan

Alternative forms

• dal, del, deu

Contraction

dau

1. Contraction of de + lo

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?daw]

Verb

dau

1. first-person singular present indicative of da
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of da
3. third-person plural present indicative of da

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

dau (ma class, plural madau)

1. a prize pool

Tarpia

Noun

dau

1. leaf

References

• George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

Tshwa

Noun

dau

1. (Cire-Cire) ash

Verb

dau

1. (Cire-Cire) to burn

References

• Pavol Štekauer, Salvador Valera, Lívia K?rtvélyessy, Word-Formation in the World's Languages: A Typological Survey (2012)

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *d?w, from Proto-Celtic *dwau, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh?.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /da??/
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /dai?/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /d?i?/

Numeral

dau m (feminine form dwy, triggers soft mutation)

1. two

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “dau”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies