Talk:gaucho
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Zezen in topic Etymology from eswiki
Missing sense?
editWebster 1913 has this, which seems different: "A member of an Indian population, somewhat affected by Spanish blood, in the archipelagoes off the Chilean coast." Not sure whether it needs to be capitalised. Equinox ◑ 13:25, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
- @Equinox Could just be plain wrong, as I've never heard that and Wikipedia has no mention of it. A search through Google Books with some promising keywords doesn't turn up anything either. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 22:19, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
- Mmm. In my experience, the W1913 material is always based on something, but sometimes it's based on a single work — especially with things like the dialectal names of birds — and in those cases we can't get our three citations. (Mr Webster didn't have the luxury of running a keyword search over a database, so couldn't necessarily gauge the frequency of a word.) I wonder what the work was in this case! Equinox ◑ 23:31, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Etymology from eswiki
editUna opinión que ha tomado fuerza en los últimos años indica que tanto la palabra «guaso» como «gaucho» tendrían raíz hispana, específicamente originada en Andalucía, donde a la falta de gracia se le denomina «huasa»; al exceso de gracia, «guasón»; y al campesino que también habría sido el étimo de la palabra gaucho: «gacho» . La combinación de esas tres palabras habría originado el término «huaso» para referirse al hombre de campo chileno...
with this ref.