gaita
Appearance
Asturian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; see gaita for possibilities.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gaita f (plural gaites)
Derived terms
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; see Portuguese gaita for possibilities.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gaita f (plural gaites)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “gaita” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; likely from Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits, “goat”), from Proto-Germanic *gaits.[1] See gaita for other proposals.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gaita f (plural gaitas)
- (music) bagpipes
- (figurative) penis
- Non me toque'la gaita!
- Don't play the bagpipe for me! / Don't touch my penis! / Stop harassing me!
- Traditional:
- A muller do gaiteriño
- muller de moita fortuna
- ela toca duas gaitas
- outras non tocan ningunha
- The bagpiper's wife,
- a woman with much fortune,
- she plays two bagpipes,
- others don't play not even one
Derived terms
[edit]- gaita grileira (“a bagpipe tuned in D”)
- gaita redonda (“a large bagpipe tuned in C”)
- gaita tombal (“a bagpipe tuned in B flat and built with two drones”)
- gaiteiro (“bagpiper”)
- Gaiteiro, a surname
See also
[edit]- gaita on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia gl
References
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “gayteyro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gaita”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “gaita”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gaita”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “gaita”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂- (“to go, step”), related to the past tense of iet.
Noun
[edit]gaita f (4th declension)
Declension
[edit]Declension of gaita (4th declension)
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Uncertain. Suggested derivations include:
- Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits, “goat”), from Proto-Germanic *gaits, with semantic shift due to bagpipes being made of goat skin;
- Ottoman Turkish (Turkish gayda), from Bulgarian гайда (gajda), possibly via Arabic غَيْطَة (ḡayṭa);
- Old Galician-Portuguese guaita, from Proto-Germanic *wahta;
- from the same root as Spanish gayo;
- Hausa algaita, via a Berber language;
- Suevic.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]gaita f (plural gaitas)
- (music) bagpipes
- Synonym: gaita de foles
- harmonica (wind instrument)
- Synonyms: gaita de boca, gaita de beiços, harmónica
- (South Brazil) accordion
- Synonyms: acordeão, concertina, (Rio Grande do Sul) cordeona, sanfona
- (slang) money; cash; dough
- (vulgar) penis
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]gaita
- inflection of gaitar:
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits, “goat”).[1][2] More at Portuguese gaita.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gaita f (plural gaitas)
- (music) bagpipes
- (colloquial) tripe, nonsense
- gullet
- (colloquial) gullet (neck)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “gaita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “gaita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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