# gá
## Hungarian
### Alternative forms

* gigágá, gá-gá

### Etymology

An onomatopoeia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡaː]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɡaː

### Interjection

gá
* honk (representation of the sound of a goose)
** 1954, Lőrinc Szabó, Falusi hangverseny (Village concert)‎, 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!

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kauː/
* Rhymes: -auː

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Norse gá, from Proto-Germanic *ganhāną.

#### Verb

gá (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gáði, supine gáð)
* (intransitive) to look, to see, to check

##### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Looks like a nominal of Etymology 1.”)

#### Noun

gá f (genitive singular gár, no plural)
* care, caution
    Synonyms: aðgát, varúð

##### Derived terms

* gálaus (“careless”)
* gáleysi (“carelessness”)

### Etymology 3

Of onomatopoeic origin.

#### Noun

gá f (genitive singular gár, no plural)
* bark, barking
    Synonyms: gjamm, gelt

##### Declension
## Irish
### Alternative forms

* gábh, gábhadh
* gádh (obsolete)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /ɡɑː/
* (Ulster) IPA: /ɡaː/

### Noun

gá m (genitive singular gá)
* 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.

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
nominative
gá
vocative
a ghá
genitive
gá
dative
gá
forms with the definite article
case
singular
nominative
an gá
genitive
an ghá
dative
leis an ngá don ghá :

#### Synonyms

* (need): feidhm, gátar, riachtanas

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* 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

## Mandarin
### Alternative forms

* ga — nonstandard

### Romanization

gá (ga$^2$, Zhuyin ㄍㄚˊ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 尜
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 軋 / 轧
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 釒 / 钅
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 錷
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 钄
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 噶

## Old Norse
### Etymology 1

Verbal noun of geyja (“to bark”).

#### Noun

gá f
* barking
* scoffing, denouncing

##### Derived terms

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

#### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “gá”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 161; also available at the Internet Archive

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *ganhāną.

#### Noun

gá f
* attention

##### Usage notes

Often in compounds, such as úgá or gáleysi

#### Verb

gá (singular past indicative gáði, plural past indicative gáðu, past participle gát)
* to heed
    (with infinitive) (about verbs)
    (about nouns) [with genitive]
*   * guðs hann gáðihe gave heed to God
*   * gá sínto take care of oneself
*   * glýja þú né gáðirthou hadst no mind for joy

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: gá
* Norwegian Nynorsk: gå

#### Further reading

* 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.
* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “gá”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 161; also available at the Internet Archive

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 假 (SV: giả) (Baxter and Sagart, 2014: 98).

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ɣaː˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [ɣaː˨˩˦]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ɣaː˦˥]

### Verb

gá
* (now literary) to make someone temporarily have a shelter
    Chả biết cơn bão ấy có đi qua để cha con chúng tôi gá tạm qua ngày không ― We are longing that the storm wouldn't last long, so we can have a one-time shelter to dwell.
* (rather dated) to lend an agent one's item for some money in exchange; to pawn
    Synonym: cầm đồ
* (woodworking) to make something attached and aligned onto a lathe