See also: Gaita, gaiță, and Gaiță

Asturian edit

 
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Etymology edit

Uncertain; see gaita for possibilities.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡaita/, [ˈɡai̯.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -aita
  • Hyphenation: gai‧ta

Noun edit

gaita f (plural gaites)

  1. (music) bagpipes

Derived terms edit

Catalan edit

 
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Etymology edit

Uncertain; see Portuguese gaita for possibilities.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

gaita f (plural gaites)

  1. bagpipes
    Synonym: cornamusa

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Galician edit

 
A Galician gaita ("bagpipe")
 
Reproduction of a 13th century gaita

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)

  1. (music) bagpipes
  2. (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

See also edit

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.
  1. ^ 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)

  1. course
  2. process
  3. gait

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Portuguese edit

 
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Etymology 1 edit

Uncertain. Suggested derivations include:

Pronunciation edit

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɡaj.tɐ/ [ˈɡaɪ̯.tɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɡaj.ta/ [ˈɡaɪ̯.ta]

Noun edit

gaita f (plural gaitas)

  1. (music) bagpipes
    Synonym: gaita-de-foles
  2. harmonica (wind instrument)
    Synonyms: gaita-de-boca, gaita-de-beiços, harmónica
  3. (South Brazil) accordion
    Synonyms: acordeão, concertina, (Rio Grande do Sul) cordeona, sanfona
  4. (slang) money; cash; dough
  5. (vulgar) penis
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

gaita

  1. inflection of gaitar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Probably from Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits, goat).[1][2] More at Portuguese gaita.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡaita/ [ˈɡai̯.t̪a]
  • Audio (Venezuela):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aita
  • Syllabification: gai‧ta

Noun edit

gaita f (plural gaitas)

  1. (music) bagpipes
  2. (colloquial) tripe, nonsense
  3. gullet
  4. (colloquial) gullet (neck)

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ gaita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  2. ^ 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