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Овча гайда

Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɡajdɐ]
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Noun

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га́йда (gájdaf (relational adjective га́йден, diminutive гайди́ца)

  1. bagpipe

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Ottoman Turkish: غایده (gayda)

References

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  • гайда”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • гайда”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

Ukrainian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish هایده (hayde), هایدی (haydi).

Interjection

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гайда (hajda)

  1. come on, c'mon
  2. let's ...

Etymology 2

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See Bulgarian га́йда (gájda).

Noun

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га́йда (hájdaf inan (genitive га́йди, nominative plural га́йди, genitive plural гайд)

  1. a Bulgarian/Serbian/Polish bagpipe
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Etymology 3

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From English hide.

Noun

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га́йда (hájdaf inan (genitive га́йди, nominative plural га́йди, genitive plural гайд)

  1. (historical) hide (a unit of land and tax assessment of varying size in Middle Ages England)
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References

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