Where does “גאָנדאָלע” come from?
גאָנדאָלע (Yiddish) comes from Italian gondola, from Venetian góndoła, from Greek κοντούρα, from Italian contorno, from French contour, from French contourner, from Vulgar Latin contornare, from Latin cum — resin, gum; to say, speak.
גאָנדאָלע (Yiddish): gondola
Ancestry of “גאָנדאָלע”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | gondola | gondola; nacelle; pod |
| 2 | Venetian | góndoła | gondola |
| 3 | Greek | κοντούρα | the finish of a design; outline |
| 4 | Italian | contorno | contour, outline; vegetables; first-person... |
| 5 | French | contour | contour |
| 6 | French | contourner | to circumvent, to bypass, to skirt around; to... |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | contornare | — |
| 8 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 9 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | — |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |