'a
See also: Appendix:Variations of "a"
English
editPronoun
edit'a
Verb
edit'a
Particle
edit'a
- Alternative form of a (“to”)
- 1955, Russell Ames, “The Open Road, the Chain Gang, and the Jail”, in The Story of American Folk Song (The Listener’s Music Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, published 1960, →OCLC, page 248:
- Say, these stripes, stripes sure don’t worry me. But these chains, chains goin’ ’a kill me dead.
- 2009, Jennifer Worth, “The Captain’s Daughter”, in Farewell to the East End, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 237:
- Well, this one’s ’ere all right. Captain’s wife or somefink, the mate says. Least, that’s what I think he’s tryin’ ’a say, because he can’t speak no English.
- 2014, R[oger] N. Morris, chapter 11, in The Dark Palace (A Silas Quinn Mystery; 3), Sutton, Surrey: Crème de la Crime, →ISBN, Part 1 (Love), page 50:
- So while we’re all distracted tryin’ ’a fix it all – that’s when they strike.
French
editArticle
edit’a f sg
Guaraní
editPronunciation
editNoun
edit'a
Verb
edit'a (intransitive, irregular)
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of 'a
Mbyá Guaraní
editNoun
edit'a
Possessed forms
edit Possessed forms of 'a
Verb
edit'a
Conjugation
editNeapolitan
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Neapolitan la.
Article
edit'a f (definite)
Pronoun
edit'a f
- her (accusative)
Coordinate terms
editNumber | Person | Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Reflexive | Possessive | Prepositional |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
singular | first-person | io (i') | me | mìo, mìa, mieje, meje | me, méne | ||
second-person, familiar | tu | te | tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje | te, téne | |||
second-person, formal | vuje | ve | vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste | vuje | |||
third-person, masculine | ìsso | 'o, 'u (lo, lu) | 'i, 'e (li, le) | se | sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje | ìsso | |
third-person, feminine | éssa | 'a (la) | 'e (le) | éssa | |||
plural | first-person | nuje | ce | nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste | nuje | ||
second-person, plural | vuje | ve | vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste | vuje | |||
third-person, masculine | ìsse | 'i, 'e (li, le) | llòro | se | llòro (invariable) | llòro | |
third-person, feminine | llòro | 'e (le) |
Etymology 2
editFrom Old Neapolitan da, from Latin de ab.
Alternative forms
editPreposition
edit'a
See also
editOld Tupi
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔa (“fruit, head”), from Proto-Tupian *ʔa (“fruit, head”).[1][2][3]
Cognate wirh Sateré-Mawé 'a and Guaraní 'a.
Noun
edit'a (possessable)
- (chiefly in compounds) head (part of the body)
- Synonym: akanga
- glans penis
- Synonym: 'ayîá
- fruit
- Synonym: 'ybá
- (vocative, in reverence) dude; bro term of address for a man
- (vocative, in reverence) companion; comrade; term of address for a friend
- (vocative, in reverence) sir; term of address for an old man
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editApocopic form of 'ar.
Verb
edit'a (first-person singular active indicative a'a, first-person singular negative active indicative n'a'aî, first-person singular gerund gûi'a, noun 'ara) (intransitive)
- (São Vicente) Alternative form of 'ar
References
edit- ^ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, page 570
- ^ Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas[1] (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
- ^ Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues (2007) “As consoantes do proto-tupí”, in Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues, Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, editors, Línguas e culturas tupí[2], 1 edition, volume 1, Campinas: Curt Nimuendajú, pages 167–204
Further reading
edit- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “'a”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 3, column 1
Tarantino
editArticle
edit'a f sg (plural le)
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- tpw:Head and neck
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