ganzo
See also: ganzō
GalicianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”),[1] or directly from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ḱank- (“branch”)[2][3]. Doublet of gancho.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ganzo m (plural ganzos)
Derived termsEdit
- gancela (“kindling”)
Related termsEdit
- gancho (“hook”)
ReferencesEdit
- “ganzo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “ganzo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “ganzo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A., “gancho”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, 1983–1991, →ISBN
- ^ Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q., The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, →ISBN, page 157
- ^ García Trabazo, José Virgilio, “Prelatin Toponymy of Asturies: a critical review in a historical-comparative perspective”, in Lletres Asturianes[1], issue 115, 2016, retrieved 14 June 2018, pages 51-71
ItalianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
ganzo (feminine singular ganza, masculine plural ganzi, feminine plural ganze)
Usage notesEdit
The smart sense is similar to figo but with a slightly less sexual sense/component and a component of furbo (“cunning, sly”). It's a mix of brilliant, [mildly] gorgeous, [very] cool and [sort of] presumptuous.
SynonymsEdit
- (cool): figo
VenetianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).
NounEdit
ganzo m (plural ganzi)
DescendantsEdit
- → Dalmatian: gȁnac
- → Greek: γάντζος (gántzos)
- → Ottoman Turkish: قانجه (kanca, kance), قنجه (kanca, kance)
- Turkish: kanca
- → Arabic: قَنْجَة (qanja, “a kind of sailing boat of up to two masts used for housing and for pleasure-trips”), غَنْجَة (ḡanja)
- → Armenian: խանճա (xanča)
- → Aromanian: cánǧe, gánǧe
- → Albanian: ganxhë, kanxhë
- → Bulgarian: ка́нджа (kándža)
- → Greek: γάντζα (gántza), κάντζα (kántza)
- → Macedonian: канџа (kandža)
- → Romanian: cánge
- → Serbo-Croatian:
ReferencesEdit
- Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas, The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, 1958, pages 244–247