gamao (00_Ga-noun Compounds in Asaxi (list))


gamao

gamao

Noun class (warm / cold)

Warm

  • Reasoning: a colour — a vivid, perceptible quality (the colour ga-nouns are uniformly warm).

Pronunciation

IPA: /ɡamao/

Pitch Accent

  • Morae: ga · ma · o
  • Pattern: L · H · L
  • Class: lexical

Semantic Field

Smntc_Field Colours

Translations

  • English: black
  • Polish: czarny

Example sentence

Example 1

  • Asaxi: onă mmråshá gamao.
  • English: The cat is black.
  • Polish: x

Alternative Forms

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Etymology

ga (colour/constitution) + mao (night) → “night-colour”. A colour built on its prototype object, like gapo (red ← apple) and gao (azure ← sky).

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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Derived terms

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