gaita

See also: Gaita, gaiță, and Gaiță

Asturian

Etymology

Uncertain; see gaita for possibilities.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaita/, [ˈɡai̯.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -aita
• Hyphenation: gai‧ta

Noun

gaita f (plural gaites)

1. (music) bagpipes

Derived terms

• gaiteru

Catalan

Etymology

Uncertain; see Portuguese gaita for possibilities.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡaj.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡaj.ta]

Noun

gaita f (plural gaites)

1. bagpipes

   Synonym: cornamusa

Derived terms

• gaiter

Further reading

• “gaita” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

A Galician gaita ("bagpipe")

Reproduction of a 13th century gaita

Etymology

Uncertain; likely from Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits, “goat”), from Proto-Germanic *gaits. See gaita for other proposals.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡai̯tɐ]

Noun

gaita f (plural gaitas)

1. (music) bagpipes
2. (figurative) penis

   Non me toque'la gaita!

   Don't play the bagpipe for me! / Don't touch my penis! / Stop harassing me!

   • Traditional:

     A muller do gaiteriño

     muller de moita fortuna

     ela toca duas gaitas

     outras non tocan ningunha

     The bagpiper's wife,

     a woman with much fortune,

     she plays two bagpipes,

     others don't play not even one

Derived terms

• gaita grileira (“a bagpipe tuned in D”)
• gaita redonda (“a large bagpipe tuned in C”)
• gaita tombal (“a bagpipe tuned in B flat and built with two drones”)
• gaiteiro (“bagpiper”)
• Gaiteiro, a surname

See also

• gaita on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “gayteyro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gaita”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “gaita”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gaita”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Latvian

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂- (“to go, step”), related to the past tense of iet.

Noun

gaita f (4th declension)

1. course
2. process
3. gait

Declension

Declension of gaita (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	gaita	gaitas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	gaitu	gaitas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	gaitas	gaitu
dative (datīvs)	gaitai	gaitām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	gaitu	gaitām
locative (lokatīvs)	gaitā	gaitās
vocative (vokatīvs)	gaita	gaitas

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Suggested derivations include:

• Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits, “goat”), from Proto-Germanic *gaits, with semantic shift due to bagpipes being made of goat skin;
• Ottoman Turkish (Turkish gayda), from Bulgarian гайда (gajda), possibly via Arabic غَيْطَة (ḡayṭa);
• Old Galician-Portuguese guaita, from Proto-Germanic *wahta;
• from the same root as Spanish gayo;
• Hausa algaita, via a Berber language;
• Suevic.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaj.tɐ/ [ˈɡaɪ̯.tɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaj.tɐ/ [ˈɡaɪ̯.tɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaj.ta/ [ˈɡaɪ̯.ta]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaj.tɐ/

Noun

gaita f (plural gaitas)

1. (music) bagpipes

   Synonym: gaita de foles

2. harmonica (wind instrument)

   Synonyms: gaita de boca, gaita de beiços, harmónica

3. (South Brazil) accordion

   Synonyms: acordeão, concertina, (Rio Grande do Sul) cordeona, sanfona

4. (slang) money; cash; dough
5. (vulgar) penis

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis

Etymology 2

Verb

gaita

1. inflection of gaitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

Probably from Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits, “goat”). More at Portuguese gaita.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaita/ [ˈɡai̯.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -aita
• Syllabification: gai‧ta

Noun

gaita f (plural gaitas)

1. (music) bagpipes
2. (colloquial) tripe, nonsense
3. gullet
4. (colloquial) gullet (neck)

Derived terms

• gaitero
• ni gaitas
• soplagaitas
• templar gaitas

 

Further reading

• “gaita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10