garganta
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese garganta; from a substrate language *gʷr̥h₃gn̥t- (“throat”), cognate with Proto-Celtic *brāgants (“neck, throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to shallow”).[1][2] Alternatively, onomatopoeic.[3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡaɾˈɣanta̝/
Noun
garganta f (plural gargantas)
- (anatomy) throat
- Synonym: gorxa
- (anatomy) gullet
- gorge
- Synonym: desfiladeiro
Derived terms
- gargantada
- gargantilla
Related terms
- gargal
- gargallada
- gargallo
References
- “garganta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “garganta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “garganta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “garganta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “garganta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 72-73
- Bascuas, Edelmiro (2002). Estudios de hidronimia paleoeuropea gallega. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade, Servicio de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico. p. 330-331. →ISBN.
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “garganta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Occitan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɡarˈɡanto]
Audio (file)
Noun
garganta f (plural gargantas)
- (anatomy) throat
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Portuguese garganta and Spanish garganta.
Noun
garganta
- neck
- throat
Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese garganta; from a substrate language *gʷr̥h₃gn̥t- (“throat”), cognate with Proto-Celtic *brāgants (“neck, throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow”). Alternatively, onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡaʁˈɡɐ̃.tɐ/ [ɡaɦˈɡɐ̃.tɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ɡaɾˈɡɐ̃.tɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ɡaʁˈɡɐ̃.tɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡaɻˈɡɐ̃.ta/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɡɐɾˈɡɐ̃.tɐ/ [ɡɐɾˈɣɐ̃.tɐ]
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɐ
- Hyphenation: gar‧gan‧ta
Noun
garganta f (plural gargantas)
- (anatomy) throat
Spanish
Garganta a la izquierda de la altura media de la imagen (throat in the left middle height of image).
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la Garganta Verde en España
Etymology
Onomatopoeic, garg
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡaɾˈɡanta/ [ɡaɾˈɣ̞ãn̪.t̪a]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -anta
- Syllabification: gar‧gan‧ta
Noun
garganta f (plural gargantas)
- (anatomy) throat
- (geography) gorge
Hypernyms
- cuello m
Hyponyms
- esófago m
- laringe f
- tráquea f
Derived terms
- garganta profunda
Descendants
- French: Gargantua (a character from François Rabelais's 16th century pentalogy The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel.)
- English: gargantuan
- French: gargantuesque
- → Haitian Creole: gagann
Further reading
- “garganta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014