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Borrowed from Polish Gdańsk .
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Gdańsk
A city on the north coast of Poland .
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city of Poland
Albanian: Dancigu
Arabic: غْدَانْسْك f ( ḡdānsk )
Armenian: Գդանսկ (hy) ( Gdansk )
Azerbaijani: Qdansk
Belarusian: Гданьск m ( Hdanʹsk )
Bulgarian: Гданск m ( Gdansk )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 格但斯克 (zh) ( Gédànsīkè )
Czech: Gdaňsk (cs) m
Danish: Gdansk , Danzig ( pre-1945 period )
Dutch: Gdańsk n
East Central German: Danzich n ( Silesian )
Esperanto: Dancigo
Farefare: Dantsi
Finnish: Gdansk
French: Gdańsk (fr) m , Dantzig (fr) m , Dantzick (fr) m
Georgian: გდანსკი ( gdansḳi )
German: Danzig (de) n , Gdańsk (de) n
Greek: Γκντανσκ (el) n ( Gkntansk ) , Ντάντσιχ n ( Ntántsich ) ( former name )
Hebrew: גדנסק f
Hungarian: Gdańsk (hu) , Dancka ( former name )
Italian: Danzica f
Japanese: グダニスク ( Gudanisuku )
Kashubian: Gduńsk (csb) m
Korean: 그단스크 (ko) ( Geudanseukeu )
Latin: Gedanum n , Gedania f , Dantiscum n
Latvian: Gdaņska
Lithuanian: Gdanskas
Low German:
German Low German: Danzig n
Macedonian: Гдањск m ( Gdanjsk )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Gdańsk n
Nynorsk: Gdańsk n
Persian: گدانسک ( gedânsk )
Polish: Gdańsk (pl) m
Portuguese: Gdansk f , Danzig f ( formerly ) , Danzigue f
Romanian: Gdańsk n , Gdansk n
Russian: Гданьск (ru) m ( Gdanʹsk )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Гдањск m
Roman: Gdanjsk m
Sindhi: گڊانسڪ
Slovak: Gdansk m
Slovene: Gdansk m inan
Spanish: Gdansk (es) m , Danzig (es) ( formerly )
Swedish: Gdańsk (sv) n , Danzig (sv) n
Thai: กดัญสก์ ( gà-dan-sa )
Turkish: Gdańsk
Ukrainian: Гданськ (uk) m ( Hdansʹk )
Vietnamese: Gdańsk
Yiddish: דאַנץ ( dants )
Gdańsk
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Disputed. Per Vasmer, derived from Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌽𐍃 . Eckblom rejects this, and many various etymologists suggest a native Proto-Slavic stem of *gъd- ( “ wet, damp ” ) and point to place names such as Gdynia and Gdecz (modern Giecz ) as further reflexes of that stem. Others still suggest a Proto-Baltic stem of *gud- (Baltic reflexes including Old Prussian gudde ( “ forest ” ) , gudas ( “ Belarusian: person speaking a foreign language ” ) or Lithuanian gudkarklis ( “ damp pasture ” ) , gudobelė ( “ hawthorn ” ) . Many etymologists support the Proto-Baltic origin, with an original stem of *Gud- + *-an + *-isk ("place of the forest people").[1]
Pronunciation
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IPA (key ) : /ɡdaɲsk/
Rhymes: -aɲsk
Syllabification: Gdańsk
Proper noun
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Gdańsk m inan (related adjective gdański )
Gdańsk (the capital city of the Pomeranian Voivodeship , Poland )
Hypernym: Trójmiasto
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References
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^ Kazimierz Rymut , Urszula Bijak, Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch , editors (1999 ), “Gdańsk”, in Nazwy miejscowe Polski: historia, pochodzenie, zmiany [1] (in Polish), volume 3, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Języka Polskiego PAN, →ISBN , page 110
Further reading
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Gdańsk in Wielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
Gdańsk in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Gdańsk in PWN's encyclopedia