gá-suh

Hokkien

Etymology

From Japanese ガス (gasu), from English gas.

Pronunciation

• (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gá-suh
  • Tâi-lô: gá-suh
  • Phofsit Daibuun: gafsuq
  • IPA (Taipei): /ɡa⁵³⁻⁴⁴ suʔ³²/
  • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɡa⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ suʔ³²/

Noun

gá-suh

1. (Taiwanese Hokkien) natural gas

Related terms

• 瓦斯 (wǎsī)

References

• “replace coal with gas”, in English-Taiwanese Dictionary‎^[1], Taichung: Maryknoll Language Service Center, 1979, published 2013, archived from the original on 2022-02-19, page 726.
• “Query for gá-suh”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.