гайда
Bulgarian

Etymology
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
- IPA(key): [ˈɡajdɐ]
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Declension
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Derived terms
- гайда́р (gajdár, “bagpipe player”)
- гайдуни́ца (gajduníca), гайдени́ца (gajdeníca, “bagpipe's chanter”)
Descendants
Ukrainian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish هایده (hayde), هایدی (haydi).
Etymology 2
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Noun
га́йда • (hájda) f inan (genitive га́йди, nominative plural га́йди, genitive plural гайд)
- a Bulgarian/Serbian/Polish bagpipe
Declension
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Noun
га́йда • (hájda) f inan (genitive га́йди, nominative plural га́йди, genitive plural гайд)
- (historical) hide (a unit of land and tax assessment of varying size in Middle Ages England)
Declension
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References
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), “гайда”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 452
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “гайда”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- Rusanivskyi, V. M., editor (2012), “гайда”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volume 3 (відстава́ння – ґура́льня), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN