gunna

gunna

1. Alternative spelling of gonna
   • 1915, George Bronson-Howard, God’s Man, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 132,

     “Oh, yes, I can,” answered Pink, “you’re gunna try to make me think you’re stuck on Beau. What you’re gunna give him you was saving for me. See? I’m jerry.” And he laughed at her encrimsoned face.

   • a. 1972, J. R. Simplot, quoted in Neal R. Peirce, The Mountain States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Eight Rocky Mountain States, W. W. Norton & Company (1972), →ISBN, page 134,

     We have the products here, the raw materials, the know-how to do it. That’s simple, and we’re gunna do it.

   • 2007, Mallory Dunn, The Letters, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 14,

     “Always, Drake. No police officer will ever hold you down.” Myrick looked around. “Man, I hate hospitals. Let’s get out of here. I’m gunna go sign that paper work.” Myrick turned towards the door as he escaped the pressing moment with his son.

• Nunga

From Middle Irish gunna,^[1] from Middle English gunne.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʊn̪ˠə/^[2]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɤn̪ˠə/

gunna m (genitive singular gunna, nominative plural gunnaí)

1. gun

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “gunna”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 388
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gunna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• guna, gonna, gouna (Medieval Latin)

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *guna, *guňa (“coarse fur garment”), likely through Byzantine Greek γούνα (goúna), γούννα (goúnna) if not vice versa.

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡun.na/,

gunna f (genitive gunnae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) a kind of leather garment

First-declension noun.

• gunella, gonella, gonellus

• Italian: gonna
• Old French: goune
  • French: gonne
  • → Middle English: gowne
    • English: gown (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: goun
    • → Middle Welsh: gŵn
      • Welsh: gŵn
  • → Middle Irish: gúna
    • Irish: gúna
    • Manx: gooyn
    • Scottish Gaelic: gùn
• → Basque: gona

• gunna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “3919. gŭnna”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 292a
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “gŭnna”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 325

From Middle Irish gunna,^[1] from Middle English gunne.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkun̪ˠə/
• (Lewis) IPA^(key): ^[2]

gunna m (genitive singular gunna, plural gunnachan)

1. gun, musket
2. cannon

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “gunna”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC