daq
Maltese
| Root |
|---|
| d-w-q |
| 8 terms |
Alternative forms
- dieq
- doq (dialectal)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /daːʔ/
Audio (Gozo) (file)
Verb
daq (imperfect jduq, past participle midjuq, verbal noun dewqan or dewqien)
- to taste (perceive the taste of)
- Synonym: (commoner) tiegħem
- to taste, try (eat or drink a bit of in order to check the taste)
- (figurative) to experience, to go through
Conjugation
| Conjugation of daq | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| perfect | m | doqt | doqt | daq | doqna | doqtu | daqu | |
| f | daqet | |||||||
| imperfect | m | nduq | dduq | jduq | nduqu | dduqu | jduqu | |
| f | dduq | |||||||
| imperative | duq | duqu | ||||||
See also
Musi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /daːʔ/
- Rhymes: -aːʔ
Usage notes
Daq is used to negate verbs and adjectives. For negating nouns and adverbs the word kan must be used.
Pacoh
Etymology
From Proto-Katuic *ɗaak, *ɗəək, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɗaak.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɗaːʔ]
Noun
daq
- water
- Ngay seq daq ngay seq ngoj.
- They ask to drink water.
- (literally, “they ask water - they ask - to drink”)
References
- Richard L. Watson, Reduplication in Pacoh (1966), page 131
- Paul Sidwell, The Katuic languages: classification, reconstruction and comparative lexicon, Lincom Studies in Asian Linguistics 58 (2005), page 51 (uses the spelling daaʔ)
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