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English
Etymology
Compare cod (“kind of fish”).
Noun
gade (plural gades)
- Any of various fish of the cod family found in British waters; especially those of the genera Gadus and Motella.
- (UK, dialect, obsolete, Moray Firth) A pike.
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Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish gatæ, from Old Norse gata, whence English gate. Cognate with German Gasse (“lane”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐍅𐍉 (gatwō).
Pronunciation
Noun
gade c (singular definite gaden, plural indefinite gader)
- street (a paved part of road, usually in a village or a town)
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Dutch
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Etymology
From Middle Dutch gade, from gegade, from Old Dutch *gigado. Substantivised form of the past participle of gaden, which is now obsolete.
Related to eega, gading, gader, tegader, gaderen, vergaderen, gegadigde, allegaartje, weerga and possibly also goed. Cognate with German Gatte.
Pronunciation
Noun
gade m or f (plural gaden, diminutive gadetje n)
- spouse (husband or wife)
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French
Etymology
From Latin gadus (“fish, probably from among the Gadiformes”), from Ancient Greek γάδος (gádos).
Pronunciation
Noun
gade m (plural gades)
- cod (any fish of the Gadidae)
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Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French regarder (“look, watch”).
Pronunciation
Verb
gade
- (transitive) to look (at)
- (transitive) to watch
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Serbo-Croatian
Noun
gade (Cyrillic spelling гаде)
- vocative singular of gad
Walloon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *gaits (compare English goat).
Pronunciation
Noun
gade f (r)
- goat (species)
- goat (female animal)
- female of roebuck
- rest for carpenters, etc.
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