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rá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ra"

Faroese

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Adjective

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rá

  1. inflection of ráur:
    1. indefinite feminine nominative singular
    2. indefinite neuter nominative/accusative plural

Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese rãa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rana.

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rá f (plural rás)

  1. frog
    Synonyms: agano, aganón, carranco, zampesa

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References

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  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “rãa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rãa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • “rá” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “rá” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “rá” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hungarian

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Pronominal adverbs from case suffixes (cf. postpositions)
ed suffix who? what? this that he/she
(it)*
case v. pr. c.
nom. – ki mi ez az ő* / -∅
az / -∅		 – –
acc. -t / -ot /
-at / -et / -öt		 kit mit ezt azt őt* / -∅
azt / -∅		 – c1
c2
dat. -nak / -nek kinek minek ennek annak neki neki- c
ins. -val / -vel kivel mivel ezzel/
evvel		 azzal/
avval		 vele c
c-f. -ért kiért miért ezért azért érte – c
tra. -vá / -vé kivé mivé ezzé azzá – – c
ter. -ig – meddig eddig addig – – c
e-f. -ként (kiként) (miként) ekként akként – – c
e-m. -ul / -ül – – – – – – c
ine. -ban / -ben kiben miben ebben abban benne – c
sup. -n/-on/-en/-ön kin min ezen azon rajta (rajta-) c
ade. -nál / -nél kinél minél ennél annál nála – c
ill. -ba / -be kibe mibe ebbe abba bele bele- c
sub. -ra / -re kire mire erre arra rá rá- c
all. -hoz/-hez/-höz kihez mihez ehhez ahhoz hozzá hozzá- c
el. -ból / -ből kiből miből ebből abból belőle – c
del. -ról / -ről kiről miről erről arról róla – c
abl. -tól / -től kitől mitől ettől attól tőle – c
*: Ő and őt refer to human beings; the forms below them might be
construed likewise. – Forms in parentheses are uncommon. All »

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Etymology

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Shortened from reá.[1]

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  • IPA(key): [ˈraː]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -raː

Pronoun

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rá

  1. upon/on/unto him/her/it
    Ne szórd rá a homokot! ― Don’t throw sand on her!
    Gondolsz néha rá? ― Do you ever think of him?
    Senki sem emlékszik rá. ― No one remembers her.

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This term may also be part of the split form of a verb prefixed with rá-, occurring when the main verb does not follow the prefix directly. It can be interpreted only with the related verb form, irrespective of its position in the sentence, e.g. meg tudták volna nézni (“they could have seen it”, from megnéz). For verbs with this prefix, see rá-; for an overview, Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes.

Declension

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Inflection of rá
person singular plural
1st rám / énrám ránk / miránk
2nd rád / terád rátok / tirátok
3rd rá, rája / őrá, őrája rájuk / őrájuk

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Adverb

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rá

  1. Synonym of később, later (after -ra/-re for the amount of time passed; usually of days or longer periods)
    Húsz évre rá (= Húsz évvel később) ― Twenty years later

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References

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  1. ^ rá in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

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  • rá in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish rád[3] (compare Scottish Gaelic ràdh), from the verb ráidid (“talks”), from Proto-Celtic *rādīti, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“perform successfully”). Cognate with Sanskrit राध्नोति (rādhnoti, “succeeds”), Old Church Slavonic радити (raditi, “take care of, work”), Gothic 𐍂𐍉𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (rōdjan, “talk”), Lithuanian rodýti (“show”).

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Noun

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rá m (genitive singular as substantive rá, genitive as verbal noun ráite, nominative plural ráite)

  1. verbal noun of abair
  2. saying, quote

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As substantive:

Declension of rá

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rá ráite
Vocative a rá a ráite
Genitive rá ráite
Dative rá ráite

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an rá na ráite
Genitive an rá na ráite
Dative leis an rá

don rá

leis na ráite

As verbal noun:

Declension of rá

Irregular

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative rá
Vocative a rá
Genitive ráite
Dative rá

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an rá
Genitive an ráite
Dative leis an rá

don rá

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References

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  1. ^ “ráit”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Ó Baoill, Dónall P. (1996) An Teanga Bheo: Gaeilge Uladh (in Irish), Dublin: Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann, →ISBN, page 46
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “rád”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 82, page 44
  5. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 78

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Kaingang

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rá

  1. writing; text
  2. sign

Old Norse

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Germanic *raihô, *raihą, cognate with English roe, German Reh. Cf. Proto-Norse ᚱᚨᛇᚺᚨᚾ (raïhan) written on the 5th-century Caistor-by-Norwich astragalus.

Noun

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rá f

  1. deer
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  • Icelandic: rá
  • Faroese: rá
  • Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: rå
  • Old Swedish: rā
  • Danish: rå

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Germanic *rahō, cognate with Middle Low German rā, German Rah.

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rá f (genitive rár, plural rár or ráar)

  1. sail-yard
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Etymology 3

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From Proto-Germanic *wranhō (“angle, corner, nook”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrónkeh₂, possibly cognate with Latvian ròka (“arm, hand”), Lithuanian rankà, Russian рука́ (ruká) and possibly also, via Gaulish, French branche (“branch”).

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rá f

  1. corner, angle
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Vietnamese

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Etymology

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Possibly from Old Chinese 籮 (OC *raːl, “bamboo basket”) (Zhengzhang) (SV: la).

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(classifier cái) rá • (𥯊)

  1. bamboo basket

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