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Is gae a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gae is a Scrabble US word. The word gae is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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Is gae a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gae is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

G2A1E1

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3-letter words (2 found)

AGE,GAE,

2-letter words (3 found)

AE,AG,EA,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 6 words from gae according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gae

gae

Translingual

Symbol

gae

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Warekena.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Warekena terms

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡeː/

Noun

gae m (genitive singular gae, nominative plural gaethe)

  1. (archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of ga (“spear, dart; ray”)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gae”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gaisos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡai̯/

Noun

gae m

  1. spear

Inflection

Due to the word's unusual historical structure (the stem having /ai̯/ followed by a lost s) the spellings gae and gai are in fact interchangeable for all forms where they appear.

Descendants

  • Irish: ga

Mutation

References

Further reading

  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scots

Etymology 1

Inherited from Northern Middle English ga, gan, from Old English gān (“to go”).

Verb

gae

  1. to go

Etymology 2

Verb

gae

  1. simple past tense of gie

Swahili

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɠɑ.ɛ/

Noun

gae class V (plural magae class VI)

  1. potsherd (broken piece of pottery)

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales) IPA(key): /ɡaːɨ̯/
  • (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈɡai̯/
    • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈɡaː/

Noun

gae

  1. Soft mutation of cae (“field”).

Verb

gae

  1. Soft mutation of cae (“(s/he) closes, shuts”).

Mutation

Yola

Alternative forms

  • ga, gaed

Etymology

From Middle English gaf. Doublet of ya.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡaː/, /ɡaːd/

Verb

gae

  1. simple past of gee

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 41

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