Where does “gondolás” come from?
gondolás (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian gondola, from Italian gondola, from Venetian góndoła, from Greek κοντούρα, from Italian contorno, from French contour, from French contourner, from Vulgar Latin contornare — resin.
gondolás (Hungarian): gondolier
Definitions
- gondolier
Ancestry of “gondolás”, step by step
gondolás traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian gondola
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | gondola | gondola a small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice |
| 2 | Italian | gondola | gondola; nacelle; pod |
| 3 | Venetian | góndoła | gondola |
| 4 | Greek | κοντούρα | the finish of a design; outline |
| 5 | Italian | contorno | contour, outline; vegetables; first-person... |
| 6 | French | contour | contour |
| 7 | French | contourner | to circumvent, to bypass, to skirt around; to... |
| 8 | Vulgar Latin | contornare | — |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
via Hungarian gondol
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | gondol | to think something; to think somehow; to think... |
| 2 | Hungarian | -öl | Used to form the second-person singular present... |
| 3 | Hungarian | -ö- | linking vowel |
| 4 | Hungarian | -d | your; Used in the second-person singular definite... |
| 5 | Middle Welsh | -nt | 3rd person plural verb ending |