Proto-WChadic: *gay- 1, *(ʔa-n)-gaway 2
Meaning: 'cooperative work, mutual help' 1, '(common) settlement, dwelling' 2
Hausa: gayya 1 ('cooperative work; collecting together of a number of people to assist another in some piece of work; a number of people so collected') Bargery 375
Mupun: angwa 'quarter of town' Sk Hs, 278
Dera=Kanakuru: gawì [ibid., 132]
Ngamo: gāya 1 ('aider') [Skin 82]
Gera: gǝ̀wǝ 2 ('hut') [Kraft I 73]
Warji: ŋgǝwai 2 ('part of compound') [Skin 278]
