gaita

See also: gaiță

Asturian

Etymology

Uncertain; see gaita for possibilities.

Noun

gaita f (plural gaites)

1. (music) bagpipes

Derived terms

• gaiteru

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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. (music) bagpipes

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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): /ˈɡajta̝/

Noun

gaita f (plural gaitas)

1. (music) bagpipe.
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

• Template:R:DDGM
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “gaita” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Latvian

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

Uncertain. Suggested derivations include:

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡaj.tɐ]
• IPA^(key): [ˈɡaj.ta]

Noun

gaita f (plural s)

1. (music) bagpipes
2. harmonica (wind instrument)
3. (South Brazil) accordion

Synonyms

• (bagpipes): gaita-de-foles
• (harmonica): gaita-de-boca, harmônica
• (accordion): acordeão, concertina, cordeona (Rio Grande do Sul), sanfona

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Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain; see gaita for possibilities.

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