different between gunna vs gonna

English

Etymology

Apparently due to eye dialect.

Contraction

gunna

1. Alternative spelling of gonna
   • 1915, George Bronson-Howard, God’s Man,^[1] The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 132,

     “Oh, yes, I can,” answered Pink, “you’re gunna try to make me think you’re stuck on Beau. What you’re gunna give him you was [sic] saving for me. See? I’m jerry.” And he laughed at her encrimsoned face.

   • a. 1972, J. R. Simplot, quoted in Neal R. Peirce, The Mountain States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Eight Rocky Mountain States,^[2] W. W. Norton & Company (1972), ?ISBN, page 134,

     We have the products here, the raw materials, the know-how to do it. That’s simple, and we’re gunna do it.

   • 2007, Mallory Dunn, The Letters,^[3] Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN, page 14,

     “Always, Drake. No police officer will ever hold you down.” Myrick looked around. “Man, I hate hospitals. Let’s get out of here. I’m gunna go sign that paper work.” [sic] Myrick turned towards the door as he escaped the pressing moment with his son.

Anagrams

• Nunga

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish gunna, borrowed from Middle English gunne.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /???n???/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /???n???/

Noun

gunna m (genitive singular gunna, nominative plural gunnaí)

1. gun

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “gunna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “gunna” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• "gunna" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Byzantine Greek ????? (goúna), from an unknown Alpine or Balkan language. Or, possibly borrowed from Celtic.

Noun

gunna f (genitive gunnae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) a kind of leather garment

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: gonna
• Old French: goune
  • French: gonne
  • ? Middle English: gowne
    • English: gown
    • Scots: goun
  • ? Middle Irish: gúna
    • Irish: gúna
• ? Basque: gona

References

• gunna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish gunna, borrowed from Middle English gunne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.n?/

Noun

gunna m (genitive singular gunna, plural gunnachan)

1. gun, musket
2. cannon

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• “gunna” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “gunna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

English

Alternative forms

• gon
• gon'
• gunna
• gonner, gunner

Etymology

Written form of a reduction of going to. The pronunciation of present participles with the sound n rather than ng has a long history (see g-dropping on Wikipedia).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???n.?/, /???n.?/; (unstressed) IPA^(key): /??n.?/
• (AAVE) IPA^(key): [?õ]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /??n.?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???n.?/
• Homophones: gunner (non-rhotic accents)

Contraction

gonna

1. (colloquial, with bare infinitive) Contraction of going to when followed by an infinitive verb: used to express a future action.

   • Never gonna give you up, / Never gonna let you down, / Never gonna run around and desert you. / Never gonna make you cry, / Never gonna say goodbye, / Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

Usage notes

• This spelling, like any nonstandard spelling, risks appearing condescending. Even when going to has the pronunciation that gonna denotes, it is usually spelled <going to>.
• Gonna, like the pronunciation it denotes, only occurs when going to is a modal verb indicating a future tense (something that is bound to happen or is planned), and not for lexical uses of "going to" (i.e. the verb go followed by a prepositional phrase beginning with to). Thus, one says, I’m gonna go now, but *I’m gonna the mall is not observed. (In such contexts, I’m going to the mall is said, with going to pronounced more fully, e.g. IPA^(key): /??o??? ??/, /??o??n?/.) The same is true of other modal verb contractions such as shoulda, woulda, or coulda (e.g. She shoulda come with us but not *She shoulda some patience).

See also

• to (particle)
• coulda
• gotta
• shoulda
• wanna
• woulda
• I'm 'onna
• I'mma

Anagrams

• angon

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin gunna (“leather garment”). Compare English gown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n.na/

Noun

gonna f (plural gonne)

1. skirt

Derived terms

• gonnellino
• minigonna