гайда

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Bulgarian

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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).

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Noun

га́йда (gájdaf (relational adjective га́йден, diminutive гайди́ца)

  1. bagpipe

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Descendants

  • Ottoman Turkish: غایده (gayda)

References

  • 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

Etymology 1

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

Interjection

гайда (hajda)

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

Etymology 2

See Bulgarian га́йда (gájda).

Noun

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

  1. a Bulgarian/Serbian/Polish bagpipe
Declension

Etymology 3

From English hide.

Noun

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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