gogo
English
WOTD – 8 March 2016
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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Noun
gogo (plural gogos)
- (South Africa) Grandmother; elderly woman.
- 2009, Debra Liebenow Daly, The Kingdom of Roses and Thorns, page 112:
- On the weekdays she and Bawinde worked for the South Africans, but as the weekend approached Elizabeth was anxious to get home to see if James had come to visit his gogo in the village.
See also
Basque
Etymology
Of native origin, probably a reduplicated form of an ancient root.
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - IPA(key): /ɡoɡo/, [ɡo̞.ɣ̞o̞]
Declension
Declension of gogo (inanimate, ending in vowel)
indefinite | singular | plural | |
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absolutive | gogo | gogoa | gogoak |
ergative | gogok | gogoak | gogoek |
dative | gogori | gogoari | gogoei |
genitive | gogoren | gogoaren | gogoen |
comitative | gogorekin | gogoarekin | gogoekin |
causative | gogorengatik | gogoarengatik | gogoengatik |
benefactive | gogorentzat | gogoarentzat | gogoentzat |
instrumental | gogoz | gogoaz | gogoez |
inessive | gogotan | gogoan | gogoetan |
locative | gogotako | gogoko | gogoetako |
allative | gogotara | gogora | gogoetara |
terminative | gogotaraino | gogoraino | gogoetaraino |
directive | gogotarantz | gogorantz | gogoetarantz |
destinative | gogotarako | gogorako | gogoetarako |
ablative | gogotatik | gogotik | gogoetatik |
partitive | gogorik | — | — |
prolative | gogotzat | — | — |
Chichewa
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡó.ɡo/, /ˈɡo.ɡo/
French
Etymology
Name of a character in Frédérick Lemaître’s play “Robert Macaire”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɔ.ɡo/
Audio (file)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “gogo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swazi
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
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