Words starting with Gb

gbo

Reviewed by a Ga speaker

to die; to lose force, power or taste; to go out, to end, expire, die away, fade, be wiped out, spent; to be done, fully ground, clean, fully crushed

infinitive gbō or the irregular gbele (see this), seldom gbomọ; plural gboi, infinitive gboimọ; compare gbe, to kill; Zimmermann compares German gar, klein; tšofã gboko, the medicine is not yet fully ground; da or daṅ gbo, infinitive daṅgbō, daṅgbĕle, to be tasteless (of persons), to have a tasteless mouth (see gbe daṅ); he gbo, infinitive hegbele, hegbō, to have no feeling on the outside; hĩe gbo, infinitive hĩegbō and hĩegbele, hĩgble, to have a dead face, that is, to be ashamed: kẹ owekunyo gbo lẹ, ogboo; ši kẹ ehĩe gbo lẹ, ohĩe egbo, if your relative died, you do not die, but if he/she was shamed (his/her face died), you are shamed (your face has died); compare gbe hĩe, hĩe fie ši; mli gbo, infinitive mligbō, mligbele, to be dead inside; na gbo, to have a dead mouth, to have no sharpness or taste: kakla lẹ na gbo, the knife is blunt (German stumpf); ngo lẹ na gbo, the salt has lost its savor; toi gbo, to be deaf, disobedient, the same as gbo toi, infinitive toigbō, toigbele (compare toi sa, bo toi); Zimmermann notes such subjects are sometimes placed after the verb, as gbo toi (the same as toi gbo), to be dead in the ear, gbo hĩe (pages 97 to 98)