Gontade

Galician

Etymology

From Latin Guntati, genitive of Guntatus, from a Suevic or Gothic personal name, from a compound *Gunþihaþuz, from Proto-Germanic *gunþiz (“battle”) and *haþuz (“battle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡonˈtaðe̝/

Proper noun

Gontade m

1. A village in Ardaña parish, Carballo, A Coruña, Galicia
2. A village in Os Ánxeles parish, Brión, A Coruña, Galicia
3. A village in Piñeiro parish, Cuntis, Pontevedra, Galicia
4. A village in Oia parish, Vigo, Pontevedra, Galicia

Derived terms

• Gontad (Castilianized surname)

See also

• Gontade on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

• “Gontad” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “Gontade” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Gontade”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega