-gu

-gu

1. movement to
2. purpose
3. belonging to

   bubaa birraygu

   boy's father.

4. for

-gu

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぐ

-gu

1. dative case marker

   ngawa-gu : for water

• William McGregor, Gunin / Kwini (1993), pages 38, 53

Related to Old Church Slavonic гъ (gŭ, “comparative particle used in негъли (negŭli, “than”)”), of unclear further origin.^[1]

-gu^[2]

1. (Old Lithuanian) particle emphasizing a question

   Tu-gu esi ansai, kursai turi ateiti? ― Are you the one, who is to come?

2. used in jéigu (“if”) and negù (“than”)

-gu

1. first person singular subject enclitic
2. first person singular possessive enclitic

-gu

1. Equipping infinitive of verbs.

• Yakup Abdurishid (2020). Salar Halkı ve Dilleri (Duygu Ö. Demir, Trans.). Tehlikedeki Diller Dergisi, Çeviriler Dosyası 2-Ek, 151-163. [2]

• -gı, -gi, -gü

From Ottoman Turkish ـگی (-gi), from Old Anatolian Turkish ـکو (-gü), from Proto-Turkic *-gü.

-gu

1. Suffix creating a new noun related to its root.

   ‎bulmak (“to find”) + ‎-gu → ‎bulgu (“finding”)

   ‎sormak (“to ask”) + ‎-gu → ‎sorgu (“interrogation”)

   ‎duymak (“to feel, to hear”) + ‎-gu → ‎duygu (“emotion”)

From Proto-Oceanic *-gu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *-ku, from Proto-Austronesian *-ku.

• IPA^(key): /ᵑɡu/

-gu

1. A first-person singular possessive suffix.

• Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 365
• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.