Ga
noun
a Kwa language of Ghana, spoken in Accra and vicinity.
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Ga
1 American
[gah]
/ gɑ /
noun
Ga
2
American
Symbol, Chemistry.
GA
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American
Ga.
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American
abbreviation
G.A.
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American
abbreviation
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General Agent.
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General Assembly.
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Insurance. Also g.a., G/A general average.
GA
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British
abbreviation
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General Assembly (of the United Nations)
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general average
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Georgia
Ga
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British
/ ɡɑː /
noun
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a member of a Negroid people of W Africa living chiefly in S Ghana
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the language of this people, belonging to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family
Ga
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symbol
Ga.
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abbreviation
ga
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abbreviation
Example Sentences
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Last August the Oedilfers asked us for ge- words; the year before that, we did the ga-.
From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2017
Last August Chris and pals were up to the ga- words.
From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2016
It has grown out of the fuller forms ge-: Anglo-Saxon, ge-: Old Saxon, gi-: Mœso-Gothic, ga-: Old High German, ka-, cha-, ga-, ki-, gi-.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
The ulterior derivation is obscure, but philologists have identified it with the Goth. gaman, companion or companionship; if this be so, it is compounded of the prefix ga-, with, and the root seen in “man.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
Hence it is probable that the ga-, ki-, or gi-, Gothic, is the cum of Latin languages.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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