gá-suh

Hokkien

Etymology

From Japanese ガス (gasu), from English gas.

Pronunciation

(Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gá-suh
- Tâi-lô: gá-suh
- Phofsit Daibuun: gafsuq
- IPA (Taipei): /ɡa⁵³⁻⁴⁴ suʔ³²/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɡa⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ suʔ³²/

Noun

gá-suh

(Taiwanese Hokkien) natural gas

Related terms

瓦斯 (wǎsī)

References

“replace coal with gas”, in English-Taiwanese Dictionary‎, Taichung: Maryknoll Language Service Center, 1979, published 2013, archived from the original on 2022-02-19, page 726.
“Query for gá-suh”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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