gauna

"You ever skinned an animal before?" he asks, tossing me two of the rabbit-like creatures he calls 'gauna'.

Wraithbait 2009

Visual references are stitched through the language - old women were called 'gauna,' literally 'hot milk-skin'; you spoke not of being good but of appearing good; the most precious possession in the city were the well-born, pulchritudinous young men, the kalos k'athagos - the 'noble in mind and appearance.'

"The Hemlock Cup," a history of Socrates Post 2011

Visual references are stitched through the language - old women were called 'gauna,' literally 'hot milk-skin'; you spoke not of being good but of appearing good; the most precious possession in the city were the well-born, pulchritudinous young men, the kalos k'athagos - the 'noble in mind and appearance.'

"The Hemlock Cup," a history of Socrates Post 2011

Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary has a separate section under go giving examples spelled ganna, gauna, gaunna, and ginnie.

On gonna DC 2010

Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary has a separate section under go giving examples spelled ganna, gauna, gaunna, and ginnie.

Archive 2010-09-01 DC 2010

The bride is taken for four days to the husband's house and then returns, and is again sent with the usual _gauna_ ceremony, when she is fit for conjugal relations.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

At the _gauna_ ceremony the bride's cloth is tied to that of the bridegroom, and they change seats.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

The bride remains at her husband's house for a few days and then goes home, and before she finally takes up her abode with him the _gauna_ or going-away ceremony must be performed.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

The first Diwali or Akha-tij festival after the wedding must also be passed at the husband's house, but consummation is not effected until the _aina_ or _gauna_ ceremony is performed on the attainment of puberty.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

As the bride is usually adult there is no necessity for a _gauna_ ceremony, and she leaves for her husband's house once for all.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell