G

Etymology
From a modification of the letter, from the  letter , from the  letter , derived from the  letter , from the  hieroglyph.

Letter

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

Symbol

 * 1)  giga-.
 * 2) gauss.
 * 3)  glycine, a natural amino acid.
 * 4)  Any of the nucleotides guanodine, nucleoside guanosine, or nucleobase guanine, which are components of DNA.
 * 5)  The gravitational constant in the formula F = Gm1m2/r2; sometimes called "big G" to distinguish from g for the acceleration of gravity.
 * 6)  The major chord with a root of G.
 * 7)  A wildcard for a glide or semivowel
 * 1)  A wildcard for a glide or semivowel
 * 1)  A wildcard for a glide or semivowel

Noun

 * 1)  Games.
 * 2)  Green.
 * 3)  General suitable for a general audience.
 * 4)  Goals.
 * 5) Ground floor (of a building).
 * 6) A galaxy.
 * 7) Gravity.
 * 8)  The academic grade that comes next below F.
 * 9)  Abbreviation for Government Spending.
 * 10)  unit of gravitational acceleration.
 * 11)    or gamma-butyrolactone.
 * 12)  glucinum.
 * 1)  The academic grade that comes next below F.
 * 2)  Abbreviation for Government Spending.
 * 3)  unit of gravitational acceleration.
 * 4)    or gamma-butyrolactone.
 * 5)  glucinum.
 * 1)  Abbreviation for Government Spending.
 * 2)  unit of gravitational acceleration.
 * 3)    or gamma-butyrolactone.
 * 4)  glucinum.
 * 1)  glucinum.
 * 1)  glucinum.

Letter

 * 1) The fourteenth letter in the Afar alphabet.

Noun

 * 1) G

Etymology

 * is from West Germanic stem-initial in most of Moselle Franconian; from *gg in Ripuarian and northernmost Moselle Franconian; in much of Ripuarian from *d, *þ after long high vowels.
 * For the origin of, see . replaces the former after back vowels.

Usage notes

 * In the spelling of the Colognian Academy (Akademie för uns kölsche Sproch), any West Germanic or otherwise underlying *g is spelt g regardless of the pronunciation, except that ck is used for in the syllable coda.
 * In the popular German-based spelling, the sounds and  are spelt g. The other sounds are represented by   and ch  (except sometimes in unstressed  for ). In the coda, ck or rarely gg may be used for.
 * In the Dutch-based spelling, is j,  is gk, coda  is k. The other sounds are spelt g.


 * In the German-based spelling, g is always doubled after short vowels. However, g for any other sound is never doubled according the Colognian Academy. In the popular system, g for  may be doubled after short vowels or not.
 * In the Dutch-based spelling, g is regularly doubled after short vowels if the syllable were otherwise open.

Etymology 1
From,.

Noun

 * 1)  gigabyte

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)  female prostitute

Usage notes

 * 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
 * The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Letter

 * 1) The seventh letter of the Dutch alphabet.

Usage notes
The Dalecarlian runic variant for this letter is not available in Unicode.

Usage notes

 * Used only in loanwords except for.

Usage notes
The abbreviations, , and  are the most common of their kind seen in restaurant menus. Other abbreviations are also seen, but not as standardized. Most menus contain a list of the abbreviations they use, including the four common ones.

Pronunciation

 * In Standard German proper, ‹g› in the syllable coda is pronounced except for the unstressed syllable, which becomes . In southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and South Tyrol,  is often heard in the latter case, too. In northern and central Germany, conversely, coda ‹g› is traditionally always pronounced like ‹ch›, thus as fricative . Many speakers have now adapted to the standard or mix both ways, e.g. restricting the fricative (outside of ) to some of the commonest words. Those who still use it generally, may nevertheless switch to  in enunciation or when reading out.
 * Fricative realisations and  also occur syllable-initially in various regions, but these are now clearly marked as dialectal.
 * In Standard German proper, ‹g› in the syllable coda is pronounced except for the unstressed syllable, which becomes . In southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and South Tyrol,  is often heard in the latter case, too. In northern and central Germany, conversely, coda ‹g› is traditionally always pronounced like ‹ch›, thus as fricative . Many speakers have now adapted to the standard or mix both ways, e.g. restricting the fricative (outside of ) to some of the commonest words. Those who still use it generally, may nevertheless switch to  in enunciation or when reading out.
 * Fricative realisations and  also occur syllable-initially in various regions, but these are now clearly marked as dialectal.

Letter

 * 1) The seventh letter of the German alphabet.

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) G, gravity

Etymology 2
Initial of.

Noun

 * 1)  cockroach

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.

Letter




Pronunciation

 * , or if devoiced

Usage notes
When followed by an or, this letter represents the phoneme , as in   and. When followed by hi or he (ghi and ghe) and in all other cases, it represents.

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by  and followed by . Its traditional name is .

Etymology
From Gaj's Latin alphabet, from alphabet , from Latin , from a modification of the  letter , from the  letter , from the  letter , derived from the  letter , from the  hieroglyph. Pronunciation as is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from.

Pronunciation

 * Phoneme


 * Letter name

Inflection

 * Overall more common


 * More common when with a definite adjective


 * Dialectal, in common written language used till 19th century

Usage notes

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

Letter

 * 1) the seventh letter of the Spanish alphabet

Etymology 1
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.

Noun

 * 1)  fifth tone from a C major scale

Etymology 3
of.

Interjection

 * : game!; ready!

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by  and followed by .

Mutation

 * G at the beginning of words is omitted in a, mutates to in a  and is unchanged by , for example with the word :