gañen

See also: ganen and gǎn'ēn

Garifuna

Etymology

Likely an old compound of Garifuna gayu (“chicken, fowl”) and an obsolete word meaning “egg”. Compare also Island Carib gą́ie (“chicken's egg”), which Taylor (1951) analyzes as a compound of gáiu (“chicken, fowl”, from Spanish gallo) +‎ ę́u (“egg”, having possessive form -ę).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡaɲẽ/

Noun

gañen

  1. egg
  2. stone
  3. (anatomy) testicle

Inflection
Possessives of gañen
singular plural
first nigañe wagañe
second bigañe higañe
third masculine feminine hagañe
ligañe tigañe

References
  • Taylor, Douglas (1951), “Morphophonemics of Island Carib (Central American Dialect)”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 17, issue 4, pages 224-234.

Spanish

Verb

gañen

  1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of gañir.
  2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present indicative form of gañir.
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