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/

Semantic Field

Smntc_Field Colours

Translations

  • English: black
  • Polish: czarny

Example sentence

Onă mmråshá gamao. The cat is black.

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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