гайда
Bulgarian edit
Etymology edit
Wanderword probably from Ladino, perhaps originally meaning “goat's bellows”, cognate with modern Spanish gaita, Basque gaita, Portuguese gaita. Loaned also into Macedonian гајда (gajda), Serbo-Croatian га̑јде pl, Greek γκάιντα (gkáinta), Turkish gayda, Arabic غَيْطَة (ḡayṭa).
False cognate with native onomatopoeiae Bulgarian га (ga) / га-га (ga-ga) (cawing, groaning sound), га́кам pf (gákam), га́ювам impf (gájuvam, “to squawk, to caw”) and further with Lithuanian gáida (“melody”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
га́йда • (gájda) f (relational adjective га́йден, diminutive гайди́ца)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
- гайда́р (gajdár, “bagpipe player”)
- гайдуни́ца (gajduníca), гайдени́ца (gajdeníca, “bagpipe's chanter”)
Descendants edit
- → Ottoman Turkish: غایده (gayda)
References edit
Ukrainian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish هایده (hayde), هایدی (haydi).
Interjection edit
гайда • (hajda)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
га́йда • (hájda) f inan (genitive га́йди, nominative plural га́йди, genitive plural гайд)
- a Bulgarian/Serbian/Polish bagpipe
Declension edit
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
га́йда • (hájda) f inan (genitive га́йди, nominative plural га́йди, genitive plural гайд)
- (historical) hide (a unit of land and tax assessment of varying size in Middle Ages England)
Declension edit
References edit
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), “гайда”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 452
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “гайда”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- Rusanivskyi, V. M., editor (2012), “гайда”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 3 (відстава́ння – ґура́льня), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN