Talk:gang

Is this actually Indonesian?--Williamsayers79 13:29, 2 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I know that the first sense is valid. The word gang is a very common Indonesian word that means alley or narrow street. You can google, for example, "anak-anak di gang" (children in the alleyways). —Stephen 14:13, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, its the Afrikaans word for alley as well, derived from Indonesian. As for the gang similar to English gang, without haveing researched, I think that is now becomming a translingual word. Certainly I have heard it used in Afrikaans. Rfvpassed. Andrew massyn 19:48, 3 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I believe that "gang", in all it's Indonesian senses is actually borrowed from Dutch. Indonesia was afterall a Dutch colony untill after World War II. "Gang" in Afrikaans also derives from Dutch.--66.191.239.22 20:21, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Regrouping of definitions April 2012
I regrouped the definitions to list all "people groups" first, then "implement groups", followed by other incidental definitions. I am working on clear quotations for each of the mentioned example phrases and will implement them shortly. Please do not rearrange unless absolutely certain of an improvement until May 1, 2012. Alex.deWitte (talk) 06:06, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

German
There are at least 3 words in German:

1. Corridor Er geht den Gang entlang OR Er geht den Haushang entlang (He is walking thru the corridor)

2. Type of walking Er hat einen seltsamen Gang (He walks funny/strange)

3. Level in a car Mein Auto hat 5 Gänge und einen Rückwärtsgang My car has 5 Levels for transmission and a backward level

84.150.18.151 07:44, 21 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Wiktionary is case-sensitive. See . —Stephen (Talk) 08:05, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

German
How is this an OHG entry, but it lists nothing but foreign languages?2601:806:4301:C100:94FA:34AF:2E41:D517 16:25, 23 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Presumably nobody has got around to adding the OHG section to the page yet. Equinox ◑ 16:27, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

toilet
I dont know much about Old English. Do we know if the sense of toilet is a regular deverbal, essentially meaning "place to go"? And would this also apply to the meaning of path? — Soap — 12:19, 18 June 2023 (UTC)