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guado.

ford

5 characters2 syllables approx.Italiano language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɡwa.do/
  1. ford

    error-lua-exec · masculine
  2. wade

    error-lua-exec · masculine
Where this word comes from

From Vulgar Latin *uadam, *wadam, from Frankish *wad, from Proto-Germanic *wadą (“ford”), from Proto-Indo-European *wadʰom, *wh₂dʰóm (ultimately from the root *weh₂dʰ-). Compare French gué (“ford”), Catalan gual, Occitan ga. Other sources list it as deriving from Latin vadum, 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 vaju, which were not affected by the Germanic influence.

noun/ˈɡwa.do/
  1. dyer's woad, glastum (the plant Isatis tinctoria)

    error-lua-exec · masculine
  2. woad, indigo (blue dye)

    error-lua-exec · masculine
Where this word comes from

From Lombardic waid or Old High German weit, from Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd.

verb/ˈɡwa.do/
  1. first-person singular present indicative of guadare

    error-lua-exec · first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular
Where this word comes from

From Vulgar Latin *uadam, *wadam, from Frankish *wad, from Proto-Germanic *wadą (“ford”), from Proto-Indo-European *wadʰom, *wh₂dʰóm (ultimately from the root *weh₂dʰ-). Compare French gué (“ford”), Catalan gual, Occitan ga. Other sources list it as deriving from Latin vadum, 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 vaju, which were not affected by the Germanic influence.

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