guadañar
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From guadaña, or from Old Spanish guadanyar, from Vulgar Latin *wadaniāre (“pursue, win; scythe, mow, graze”), from Frankish *waiþanōn. The semantics shifted to "win/gain/earn" in most of the other Romance languages.
Compare Portuguese ganhar, Catalan guanyar, French gagner, Italian guadagnare. See also Spanish ganar (“gain, win, earn”), from a different root influenced by the etymon of this word.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
guadañar (first-person singular present guadaño, first-person singular preterite guadañé, past participle guadañado)
- (transitive) to scythe; mow
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of guadañar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “guadañar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014