gañen
Galician
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- inflection of gañar:
Garifuna
editEtymology
editLikely an old compound of Garifuna gayu (“chicken, fowl”) and an obsolete word meaning “egg”. Compare also Kalinago gą́ie (“chicken's egg”), which Taylor (1951) analyzes as a compound of gáiu (“chicken, fowl”, from Spanish gallo) + ę́u (“egg”, having possessive form -ę).
Pronunciation
editNoun
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Inflection
editPossessives of gañen
References
edit- Taylor, Douglas (1951) “Morphophonemics of Island Carib (Central American Dialect)”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 17, number 4, pages 224-234.
Spanish
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