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guado

guado

See also: guadò

Italian

Noun

guado m ‎(plural guadi)

  1. ford
  2. wade
Derived terms

Verb

guado

  1. first-person singular present indicative of guadare

Etymology 2

From Lombardic waid[4] or Old High German weit,[5] from Proto-Germanic *waidą, *waidaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wait- ‎(“woad”). Compare French guède and English woad.

Noun

guado m ‎(plural guadi)

  1. woad, glastum (the plant Isatis tinctoria)
  2. woad, indigo (blue dye)

References

  1. ↑ “guado (lessico)” in Enciclopedia, Sapere.it.
  2. ↑ “guado (1)” in Etimo.it.
  3. ↑ “guado1” in Vocabolario Treccani.
  4. ↑ “guado2”in Vocabolario Treccani.
  5. ↑ “guado (2)” in Etimo.it.

Etymology

Possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wadą ‎(“ford”), from Proto-Indo-European *wadʰom, perhaps through a Late Vulgar Latin *uadam. Compare French gué ‎(“ford”). Other sources list it as deriving from Latin vadum,[1][2][3] itself from the same Proto Indo-European root as the Germanic, and thus cognate to it. However, it was likely influenced in pronunciation by the corresponding Germanic term (the change of Classical Latin V, originally pronounced /w/, to /v/ had probably already occurred in the Vulgar Latin dialects by the Proto-Romance era in the early Middle Ages; thus the normal result in Italian would have been *vado). Compare Spanish vado, Portuguese vau, Romanian vad, Sicilian vadu, which were not affected by the Germanic influence.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡwa.do/, [ˈɡwäːd̪o]
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Hyphenation: guà‧do

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