gaita
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
- “gayteyro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “gaita” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “gaita” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “gaita” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “gaita”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- ^ 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014