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See also:Gad,GAD,gád,andgàd

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Euphemistic alteration ofGod.

Interjection

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gad

  1. An exclamation roughly equivalent toby God,goodness gracious,for goodness' sake.
    • 1905,Edith Wharton,chapter13,inThe House of Mirth:
      That's the trouble — it was too easy for you — you got reckless — thought you could turn me inside out, and chuck me in the gutter like an empty purse. But, bygad,that ain't playing fair: that's dodging the rules of the game.
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishgadden(to hurry, to rush about).

Verb

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gad(third-person singular simple presentgads,present participlegadding,simple past and past participlegadded)

  1. (intransitive)To move from one location to another in an apparently random andfrivolousmanner.
    Synonym:gallivant
    • 1852,Alice Cary,Clovernook....[1]:
      This, I suppose, is the virgin who abideth still in the house with you. She is not given, I hope, togaddingovermuch, nor to vain and foolish decorations of her person with ear-rings and finger-rings, and crisping-pins: for such are unprofitable, yea, abominable.
    • 1903,Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Fourth, page 123
      So when he saw King Arthur he said: "Thou knave! Wherefore didst thou quit thy work to go a-gadding?"
    • 1888–1891,Herman Melville,“[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter [HTTP://GUTENBERG.NET.AU/EBOOKS06/0608511H.HTML 19].”, inBilly Budd and Other Stories,London:John Lehmann,published1951,→OCLC:
      But there is no telling the sacrament, seldom if in any case revealed to thegaddingworld, wherever under circumstances at all akin to those here attempted to be set forth, two of great Nature's nobler order embrace.
    • 1960,P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse,chapter XIII, inJeeves in the Offing,London:Herbert Jenkins,→OCLC:
      If you are on the board of governors of a school and have contracted to supply an orator for the great day of the year, you can be forgiven for feeling a trifle jumpy when you learn that the silver-tongued one hasgaddedoff to the metropolis, leaving no word as to when he will be returning, if ever.
  2. (of cattle)Torunwith thetailin theair,bentover theback,usually in an attempt toescapethewarble fly.
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Noun

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gad(pluralgads)

  1. One whoroamsabout idly; agadabout.

Etymology 3

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FromMiddle Englishgade(a fool, simpleton, rascal, scoundrel; bastard),fromOld English*gada(fellow, companion, comrade, associate),fromProto-West Germanic*gadō,fromProto-Germanic*gadô,*gagadô(companion, associate),related toProto-West Germanic*gaduling(kinsman).Cognate withDutchgade(spouse),GermanGatte(male spouse, husband).See alsogadling.

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Noun

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gad(pluralgads)

  1. (Northern England,Scotland,derogatory)A greedy and/or stupid person.
    Get over here, ye good-for-nothinggadǃ
    • 1913,George Gordon,The Auld Clay Biggin:
      Ye greedyged,ye have taken the very breath out o' me.

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Etymology 4

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FromMiddle Englishgad,gadde,borrowed fromOld Norsegaddr(goad,spike),fromProto-Germanic*gazdaz(spike, rod, stake).Doubletofgoadandyard.

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Noun

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gad(pluralgads)

  1. (especiallyUK,US,dialect)Agoad,a sharp-pointedrodfor driving cattle, horses, etc, or one with a whip or thong on the end for the same purpose.
    Hyponym:goad
    • 1684,Meriton,Praise Ale,l. 100, in1851,James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps,The Yorkshire Anthology: A Collection of Ancient and Modern Ballads, Poems and Songs, Relating to the County of Yorkshire,page 71:
      Ist yoakes and bowes andgadand yoaksticks there?
    • c.1844,Prairie Farmer:
      Does your cow kick? Do not fly into a passion and pound her with a handspike, or trim her with agador a cow-hide.
    • 1885December 17,Detroit Free Press[2]:
      Twain finds his voice after a short search for it and when he impels it forward it is a good, strong, steady voice in harness until the driver becomes absent-minded, when it stops to rest, and then thegadmust be used to drive it on again.
    • 1888,“Robin Spraggon's Auld Grey Mare”, inThe Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend,page171:
      Our thrifty dame, Mally, she rises soon at morn, She goes and tells the master I'm pulling up the corn; He clicks up the oxengadand sair belabours me, For I'm Robin Spraggon's auld grey mare, ae how he's guided me!
    • 1908,Folklore Society (Great Britain),Publications,page288:
      On the morning of Palm-Sunday, the gamekeeper, some servant on the estate, brings with him a largegador whip, with a long thong; the stock is made of the mountain ash,[]
  2. (UK,US,dialect)Arodorstick,such as afishingrod or ameasuringrod.
    • 1836,A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers,page 4:
      And we'll prepare our limbergads,
      Lang lines, and braw brass wheels;
    • 1876,Armstrong,Wanny Blossoms,page33:
      Seek out thy tackle, thy creel and thygad.
    • 1879,William Henderson, Folklore Society (Great Britain),Notes on the Folk-lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders:
      Woe to the lad / without a rowen-treegad.
    • 1896,Proudlock,Borderland Muse,page268:
      We'll splice oorgadsnigh Barra Mill, Beneath yon auld birk tree.
  3. (especiallymining)A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.
    • c.1588–1593(date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[](First Folio), London:[]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene i]:
      I will go get a leaf of brass, / And with agadof steel will write these words.
    • 2006,Thomas Pynchon,Against the Day,Vintage, published2007,page327:
      Frank was able to keep his eyes open long enough to check his bed with a miner'sgadand douse the electric lamp
  4. (obsolete)A metalbar.
    • 1485,Thomas Malory,Le Morte d'Arthur,Book XV:
      they sette uppon hym and drew oute their swerdys to have slayne hym – but there wolde no swerde byghte on hym more than uppon agaddeof steele, for the Hyghe Lorde which he served, He hym preserved.
    • 1677–1683,Joseph Moxon,“(please specify the page)”,inMechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works,[],volume(please specify |volume=I or II),London:[]Joseph Moxon, published1678–1683,→OCLC:
      Flemish steel[]some in bars and some ingads.
    • 1836,Walter Scott,Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer: With the Author's Last Notes and Additions,page372:
      When a man received sentence of death, he was put upon thegadas it was called, that is, secured to the bar of iron in the manner mentioned in the text. The practice subsisted in Edinburgh[]
  5. (dated,metallurgy)An indeterminate measure of metal produced by afurnace,sometimes equivalent to abloomweighing around 100 pounds.
    • 1957,H.R. Schubert,History of the British Iron and Steel Industry,page146:
      Twice a day a 'gad'of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1cwt.was produced, which took from six to seven hours.
  6. Aspikeon agauntlet;agadling.
    Synonyms:gadling,spike
    • 1840,Charles Henry Hartshorne,An Endeavor to Classify the Sepulchral Remains in Northamptonshire, Or, a Discourse on Funeral Monuments in that County: Delivered Before the Members of the Religious and Useful Knowledge Society, at Northampton,page35:
      Sometimes we see the knuckles ornamented withgadsor gadlings.
    • 1842,Ecclesiological Society,Illustrations of Monumental Brasses...,page70:
      His gauntlets have embroidered cuffs; there aregadsor gadlings on the fingers.
    • 1858,Edward Cave,The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer: Volume the first[-fifth],for the year 1731[-1735]...,page215:
      Another curious device was that of arming the knuckles of the gauntlets with spikes (gadsor gadlings), by which they became weapons as well as defences.
    • 1992,Sir Guy Francis Laking,A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries,page214:
      On both finger joints aregads,which are beautifully faceted and brought to a point.
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Anagrams

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Afar

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key):/ˈɡad/ [ˈɡʌd]
  • Hyphenation:gad

Noun

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gádm(pluralgadoowáforgadittéforgadoodáf)

  1. song
  2. sungpoetry

Declension

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Declension ofgád
absolutive gád
predicative gáda
subjective gád
genitive gaddí
Postpositioned forms
l-case gádal
k-case gádak
t-case gádat
h-case gádah

References

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  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “gad”, inAn Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English),University of London,→ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015)L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[3],Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Danish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key):[ˈɡ̊æˀð],[ˈɡ̊æðˀ]

Verb

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gad

  1. pastofgide

Fingallian

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Etymology

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BorrowedfromIrishgad.

Noun

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gad

  1. withe

Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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FromFrenchgarde.

Noun

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gad

  1. guard
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Verb

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gad

  1. Alternative form ofgade(to watch)

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Irishgat,[3]fromProto-Celtic*gazdos,from lateProto-Indo-European*ǵʰasdʰos(branch ~ spear, sharp spine),a root also connected toProto-Germanic*gazdaz(spike),Latinhasta(spear).

Noun

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gadm(genitive singulargaid,nominative pluralgaid)

  1. withe
  2. string,rope,band
  3. Obsoletespelling ofgoid.
  4. Obsoletespelling ofcad.
Declension
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Declension ofgad(first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative gad gaid
vocative aghaid aghada
genitive gaid gad
dative gad gaid
forms with thedefinite article
case singular plural
nominative angad nagaid
genitive anghaid nangad
dative leis anngad
donghad
leis nagaid
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Descendants
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  • Fingallian:gad

Etymology 2

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FromOld Irishgataid(to take away).[4]

Verb

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gad(present analyticgadann,future analyticgadfaidh,verbal noungad,past participlegadta)

  1. (transitive,intransitive,literary)take away,remove;snatch,carry off
  2. Alternative form ofgoid
Conjugation
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Mutation

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Mutated formsofgad
radical lenition eclipsis
gad ghad ngad

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

References

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  1. ^Finck, F. N.(1899)Die araner mundart[The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page120
  2. ^Quiggin, E. C.(1906)A Dialect of Donegal,Cambridge University Press,§ 125,page48
  3. ^Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gat”,ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gataid”,ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Lower Sorbian

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Etymology

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FromProto-Slavic*gadъ(serpent).

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Noun

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gadmanim

  1. (archaic)venomoussnake,viper,adder

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Noun

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gadminan

  1. poison,venom

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  • Muka, Arnošt(1921, 1928) “gad”,inSłownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow(in German), St. Petersburg, Prague:ОРЯС РАН,ČAVU;Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag,2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “gad”,inDolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch(in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Middle English

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Etymology

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BorrowedfromOld Norsegaddr,fromProto-Germanic*gazdaz(spike, rod, stake).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gad(pluralgads)

  1. gad

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References

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NavajoWikipediahas an article on:
Wikipedianv

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key):/kàt/,[kàt],[kɣàt]

Noun

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gad

  1. juniper,cedar(especiallyJuniperus deppeana)

Old English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromProto-West Germanic*gaidu,fromProto-Germanic*gaidwą.

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Noun

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gādn

  1. lack,want
  2. desire,need
Declension
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Stronga-stem:

singular plural
nominative gād gād
accusative gād gād
genitive gādes gāda
dative gāde gādum
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Etymology 2

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FromProto-West Germanic*gaidu,fromProto-Germanic*gaidō.

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Noun

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gādf

  1. point,tip
  2. spearheadorarrowhead
  3. spike,goad
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Strongō-stem:

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Polish

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PolishWikipediahas an article on:
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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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InheritedfromProto-Slavic*gadъ.

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Noun

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gadmanimal(related adjectivegadzi)

  1. reptile(cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia)

Declension

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Noun

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gadmpers

  1. scoundrel(villain)

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Further reading

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  • gadinWielki słownik języka polskiego,Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • gadin Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scots

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Etymology 1

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Unknown. Possibly fromgaud(a bar of iron; a rod).Alternatively, compareIcelandicgaddr(packed snow).Attested from the 19th century.[1]

Noun

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gad(pluralgads)

  1. amassofice

Etymology 2

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Unknown. Attested from the 20th century.[2]Comparecaddle,cad(stones used to play the game ofcherry pit).Compare alsoScottish Gaelicgad(a twig, stick).

Noun

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gad(pluralgads)

  1. aballofwoodorcorkused to playshinty

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology 1

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Pronoun

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gad

  1. you(informal singular,direct object)
    Bruidhinn nas labhaire, chan eil migadchluinntinn ceart.Speak louder, I don't hear you well.
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Etymology 2

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FromOld Irishgat,fromProto-Celtic*gazdo-,from lateProto-Indo-European*ǵʰasto-or*ǵʰasdʰo-(branch ~ spear, sharp spine),a root also connected toProto-Germanic*gazdaz(spike),Latinhasta(spear).

Noun

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gadm(genitive singulargaid,pluralgaidorgadan)

  1. withy,withe

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemmaform.

Conjunction

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gad

  1. Alternative form ofged

Mutation

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Mutationofgad
radical lenition
gad ghad

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

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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InheritedfromProto-Slavic*gadъ.

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gȁdm(Cyrillic spellingга̏д)

  1. arepulsiveperson
  2. scoundrel
  3. cad
  4. asshole
  5. snake;lizard

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Somali

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Verb

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gad

  1. tobuy

Torres Strait Creole

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Noun

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gad

  1. (eastern dialect)animmaturecoconut

Usage notes

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Gadorsmol koknatis the third stage of coconut growth. It is preceded bygiru(eastern dialect)ormusu koknat(western dialect),and followed bykopespes.

Veps

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromRussianгад(gad).

Noun

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gad

  1. snake

Inflection

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Inflection ofgad(inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing. gad
genitive sing. gadan
partitive sing. gadad
partitive plur. gadoid
singular plural
nominative gad gadad
accusative gadan gadad
genitive gadan gadoiden
partitive gadad gadoid
essive-instructive gadan gadoin
translative gadaks gadoikš
inessive gadas gadoiš
elative gadaspäi gadoišpäi
illative gadaha gadoihe
adessive gadal gadoil
ablative gadalpäi gadoilpäi
allative gadale gadoile
abessive gadata gadoita
comitative gadanke gadoidenke
prolative gadadme gadoidme
approximative I gadanno gadoidenno
approximative II gadannoks gadoidennoks
egressive gadannopäi gadoidennopäi
terminative I gadahasai gadoihesai
terminative II gadalesai gadoilesai
terminative III gadassai
additive I gadahapäi gadoihepäi
additive II gadalepäi gadoilepäi

Volapük

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Noun

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gad(nominative pluralgads)

  1. garden

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Welsh

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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gad

  1. Soft mutation ofcad.

Mutation

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Mutated formsofcad
radical soft nasal aspirate
cad gad nghad chad

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

Etymology 2

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Alternative forms

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Verb

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gad

  1. (literary)second-personsingularimperativeofgadael

Mutation

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Mutated formsofgad
radical soft nasal aspirate
gad ad ngad unchanged

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

Western Apache

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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gad

  1. cedarorjunipertree,especiallyJuniperus deppeana.

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