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Webster 1913 Edition

G

G

(jē)
1.
G is the seventh letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It has two sounds; one simple, as in gave, go, gull; the other compound (like that of j), as in gem, gin, dingy. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 231-6, 155, 176, 178, 179, 196, 211, 246.
The form of G is from the Latin, in the alphabet which it first appeared as a modified form of C. The name is also from the Latin, and probably comes to us through the French. Etymologically it is most closely related to a c hard, k y, and w; as in corn, grain, kernel; kin L. genus, Gr. [GREEK]; E. garden, yard; drag, draw; also to ch and h; as in get, prehensile; guest, host (an army); gall, choler; gust, choose. See
C
.
2.
(Mus.)
G is the name of the fifth tone of the natural or model scale; – called also
sol
by the Italians and French. It was also originally used as the treble clef, and has gradually changed into the character represented in the margin. See
Clef
. G♯ (G sharp) is a tone intermediate between G and A.

Webster 1828 Edition

G

G

, the seventh letter and the fifth articulation of the English Alphabet, is derived to us, through the Latin and Greek, from the Assyrian languages; it being found in the Chaldee, Syriac, Hebrew, Samaritan, Phenician, Ethiopic and Arabic. In the latter language, it is called giim or jim; ;but in the others, gimel, gomal or gamal, that is camel, from its shape. which resembles the neck of that animal, at least in the Chaldee and Hebrew. It is the third letter in the Chaldee, Syriac, Hebrew, Samaritan and Greek; the fifth in the Arabic, and the twentieth in the Ethiopic. The early Latins used C for the Greek gamma, and hence C came to hold the third place in the order of the Alphabet; the place which gimel holds in the oriental languages. The two letters are primarily palatals, and so nearly allied in sound that they are easily convertible; and they have been reciprocally used the one for the other. But in the Assyrian languages; gimel had two sounds; one hard or close, as we pronounce the letter in gave, good; the other soft, or rather compound, as the English j or as ch in chase. In the Arabic, this letter has the sound of the English j or dzh, and this sound it has in many English words, as in genius, gem, ginger. It retains its hard sound in all cases, before a, o and u; but before e, i and y, its sound is hard or soft, as custom has dictated,and its different sounds are not reducible to rules. It is silent in some words before n, as in benign, condign, malign, campaign; but it resumes its sound inbenignityand malignity. G is mute before n in gnash; it is silent also in many words when united with h, as in bright, might,night, nigh,high. The Saxon g has in many words been softened or liquefied into y or ow; as Sax. daeg, gear, Eng. day, year; Sax. bugan, Eng. to Bow.
The Celtic nations had a peculiar manner of beginning the sound of u or w with the articulation g, or rather prefixing this articulation to that vowel. Thus guard for ward,gwain for wain, guerre for war, gwell for well. Whether this g has been added by the Celtic races, or whether the Teutonic nations have lost it, is a question I have not examined with particular attention. As a numeral G was anciently used to denote 400, and with a dash over it G, 40,000. As an abbreviation, it stands for Gaius, Geelius, &c. In music, it is the mark of the treble cliff, and from its being placed at the head or marking the first sound in Guido's scale, the whole scale took the name, Gammut, from the Greek name of the letter.

Definition 2024

G

G


G U+0047, G
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G
← F
[U+0046] 		Basic Latin H →
[U+0048]
See also: Appendix:Variations of "g" and Ⴚ

Translingual

Letter

G upper case (lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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Symbol

G

  1. (metrology) Symbol for the prefix giga-.
  2. Symbol for gauss.
  3. (biochemistry) One-letter symbol for glycine, a natural amino acid.
  4. (biochemistry) One-letter symbol for the nucleotides guanodine, nucleoside guanosine, or nucleobase guanine, which are components of DNA.
  5. (physics) The gravitational constant in the formula F = Gm1m2/r2; sometimes called "big G" to distinguish from g for the acceleration of gravity.

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Other representations of G:

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʒiː/
  • Rhymes: -iː

Letter

G ‎(upper case, lower case g, plural Gs or G's)

  1. The seventh letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.
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Number

G ‎(upper case, lower case g)

  1. The ordinal number seventh, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Noun

G ‎(countable and uncountable, plural Gs)

  1. (sports, baseball) Games (the statistic reporting the number of games that a player has participated in).
  2. (US, politics) Green.
  3. (US, of a movie) General (suitable for a general audience).
  4. (sports) Goals (a sports statistic).
  5. Ground floor (of a building).
  6. A galaxy.
  7. gravity
  8. (slang, chiefly US) Grand (thousand dollars).
    I dropped a G in Vegas. — I spent / lost a thousand dollars in Las Vegas.
  9. (grammar) Abbreviation of genitive case.
Derived terms
  • (gravity): 1-G
  • (astronomy): ClG
  • (sports): GF, GA
Alternative forms

Noun

G ‎(plural Gs)

  1. (slang) A gangster, gangsta.
  2. (economics) Abbreviation for Government Spending.
  3. Alternative letter-case form of g (unit of gravitational acceleration).

American Sign Language

Letter

‎(Stokoe G)

  1. The letter G

Azeri

Letter

G upper case (lower case g)

  1. The ninth letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /xeː/

Letter

G ‎(capital, lowercase g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

  • Previous letter: F
  • Next letter: H

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɡo/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɡ/

Letter

G ‎(upper case, lower case g)

  1. The eighth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called go and written in the Latin script.

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Finnish

Letter

G ‎(upper case, lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Finnish alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Used only in loanwords expect for ng [ŋː].

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡeː/

Letter

G ‎(upper case, lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the German alphabet.

Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /g/

Letter

G ‎(lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • (name of letter) IPA(key): /dʒi/
  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɡ/
  • (phoneme, before e or i) IPA(key): /dʒ/

Letter

G m, f ‎(invariable, lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Italian alphabet, called gi and written in the Latin script.

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Latvian

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡ]

Letter

G

G ‎(upper case F, lower case f)

  1. The tenth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called gā and written in the Latin script.

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Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): /[d͡ʒi]]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA(key): [ɡ]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA(key): [k̚]

Letter

G

  1. The seventh letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Portuguese

Letter

G ‎(upper case, lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡe/, /dʒe/

Letter

G (capital, lowercase g)

  1. The ninth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phonemes /g/ and /dʒ/. Preceded by F and followed by H.

Usage notes

When followed by the letters i or e, this letter represents the phoneme /dʒ/, as in plângi /plɨndʒʲ/ (you cry) and înger /ɨn.dʒer/ (angel). When followed by "hi" or "he" (ghi & ghe) and in all other cases, it represents /g/.

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɡ/

Letter

G ‎(lower case g)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Slovene

Letter

G ‎(capital, lowercase g)

  1. The 8th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by F and followed by H.

Somali

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɡ/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɡæ/

Letter

G upper case (lower case g)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Somali alphabet, called ga and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by C and followed by F.

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Spanish

Letter

G ‎(upper case, lower case g)

  1. The seventh letter of the Spanish alphabet.

Turkish

Letter

G ‎(upper case, lower case g)

  1. The eighth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ge and written in the Latin script.

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ɣəːɰ˨˩/, /z̻e˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ɣəːɰ˧˧/, /jej˧˧]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ɣəːɰ˨˩/, /jej˧˥]
  • Phonetic: gờ, giê

Letter

G ‎(upper case, lower case g)

  1. The tenth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called gờ or giê and written in the Latin script.

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Welsh

Letter

G

  1. The 10th letter of the alphabet, preceded by Ff and followed by Ng

Mutation

  • G at the beginning of words is omitted in a soft mutation, mutates to Ng in a nasal mutation and is unchanged in an aspirate mutation, for example with the word gorsaf ‎(“station”):
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
gorsaf orsaf ngorsaf unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

g

g


g U+0067, g
LATIN SMALL LETTER G
← f
[U+0066] 		Basic Latin h →
[U+0068]
See also: Appendix:Variations of "g", ց, and ɡ

Translingual

Letter

g lower case (upper case G)

  1. The seventh letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

Pronunciation

Symbol

g

  1. Symbol for the gram, an SI unit of mass.
  2. Symbol for gravitational acceleration, approximately 9.81 m/s2 or 32 ft/sec2 at the earth's surface. Distinguished from G.
  3. (IPA) Alternative form of ɡ (voiced velar stop).
  4. (physics) gluon

Translations

See also

Other representations of G:

English

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /dʒiː/
  • Homophone: gee
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɡ/, /dʒ/

Letter

g ‎(lower case, upper case G, plural g's)

  1. The seventh letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.
See also

Number

g ‎(lower case, upper case G)

  1. The ordinal number seventh, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Noun

g ‎(countable and uncountable, plural gs)

  1. (physics) A unit of gravitational acceleration.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of G (grand: thousand).

Azeri

Letter

g lower case (upper case G)

  1. The ninth letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eː
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɣeː/

Noun

g ‎(lower case, upper case G)

  1. The seventh letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. (physics) A unit of gravitational acceleration.

Derived terms

See also

  • Previous letter: f
  • Next letter: h

Abbreviation

g

  1. (physics) gram

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɡo/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɡ/

Letter

g ‎(lower case, upper case G)

  1. The eighth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called go and written in the Latin script.

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Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k/

Letter

g ‎(upper case G)

  1. The eighth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒe/

Abbreviation

g

  1. (physics) g
  2. (text messaging slang) =j'ai

Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /g/

Letter

g ‎(upper case G)

  1. The seventh letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /dʒe/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /dʒ/ before 'i'/'e'/'y', as /ʒ/ in the suffix -age, and /ɡ/ elsewhere.

Letter

g ‎(lower case, upper case G)

  1. The seventh letter of the Interlingua alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

  • Previous letter: f
  • Next letter: h

Italian

Noun

g m, f ‎(invariable)

  1. See under G

Latvian

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡ]

Letter

G

g ‎(upper case F, lower case f)

  1. The tenth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called gā and written in the Latin script.

See also

Livonian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɡ/

Letter

g ‎(upper case G)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Malay

Letter

g ‎(lower case, upper case G)

  1. The seventh letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Norwegian

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ɡeː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɡ/, /k/, /j/, /ʃ/, /ɪ/

Letter

g

  1. The seventh letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • When g is written before j, they merge together and create the sound of y in you.
  • G is sometimes pronounced like the s in sugar in words of French origin, like genre, due to the fact that Norwegian lacks the voiced palato-alveolar sibilant [ʒ].
  • In eastern and nothern dialects, g at the end of pronouns is pronounced like the y in boy. In western and southern dialects, the g is pronounced like g in great.

Portuguese

The word for cat in Portuguese is gato, and starts with g.

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɡ/, IPA(key): /ʒ/

Letter

g ‎(lower case, upper case G)

  1. The seventh letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.
    • 2003, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Rocco, page 75:
      Não o perdoou por abandonar o serviço em vez de seguir você.
      She didn't forgive him for abandoning his service instead of following you.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡe/, /dʒ/

Letter

g ‎(lowercase, capital G)

  1. The ninth letter of the Romanian alphabet, written in the Latin script. Representing the phonemes /g/ and /dʒ/. Preceded by f and followed by h.

Usage notes

See G for pronunciation notes

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • (uppercase) G

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɡ/

Letter

g ‎(Cyrillic spelling г)

  1. The 11th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by f and followed by h.

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɡ/

Letter

g ‎(upper case G)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /g/, /x/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /xe/

Letter

g ‎(lower case, upper case G)

  1. The seventh letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Letter name
  • IPA(key): /ɡeː/
Phoneme
  • IPA(key): /ɡ/, /j/, /ɧ/

Letter

g ‎(lower case, upper case G)

  1. The seventh letter of the Swedish alphabet, called ge and written in the Latin script. Pronounced /g/ in front of a, o, u and å and /j/ in front of e, i, y, ä and ö. Pronounced /g/ in some loan words.

Turkish

Letter

g ‎(lower case, upper case G)

  1. The eighth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ge and written in the Latin script.

See also

Turkmen

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ɡ~ʁ/

Letter

g ‎(upper case G)

  1. The eighth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called ge and written in the Latin script.

See also

Etymology

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