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Latest comment: 3 years ago by Zezen in topic Etymology from eswiki

Missing sense?

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Webster 1913 has this, which seems different: "A member of an Indian population, somewhat affected by Spanish blood, in the archipelagoes off the Chilean coast." Not sure whether it needs to be capitalised. Equinox 13:25, 11 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

@Equinox Could just be plain wrong, as I've never heard that and Wikipedia has no mention of it. A search through Google Books with some promising keywords doesn't turn up anything either. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 22:19, 11 April 2015 (UTC)Reply
Mmm. In my experience, the W1913 material is always based on something, but sometimes it's based on a single work — especially with things like the dialectal names of birds — and in those cases we can't get our three citations. (Mr Webster didn't have the luxury of running a keyword search over a database, so couldn't necessarily gauge the frequency of a word.) I wonder what the work was in this case! Equinox 23:31, 11 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

Etymology from eswiki

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Eswiki claims:

Una opinión que ha tomado fuerza en los últimos años indica que tanto la palabra «guaso» como «gaucho» tendrían raíz hispana, específicamente originada en Andalucía, donde a la falta de gracia se le denomina «huasa»; al exceso de gracia, «guasón»; y al campesino que también habría sido el étimo de la palabra gaucho: «gacho» . La combinación de esas tres palabras habría originado el término «huaso» para referirse al hombre de campo chileno...

with this ref.

Zezen (talk) 11:26, 2 November 2021 (UTC)Reply