gannio
Latin
Etymology
According to Pokorny, from a Proto-Indo-European root common to English kink, Polish gęgać (“to gaggle”) and Ancient Greek γογγρύζω (gongrúzō, “to grunt”).[1] De Vaan notes that most of the non-Slavic words mentioned by Pokorny seem to trace back to a Proto-Indo-European *gang- (“to mock”), and is skeptical of their affiliation with the Latin term, the latter whose primary meaning seems to be more "to growl" than "to mock". He thus separates the Slavic words as the most likely comparanda (see also Russian гугнивый (gugnivyj, “(uncommon) speaking through the nose”)), and considers them, as well as the Latin, to be onomatopoeic.[2]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡan.ni.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡan.ni.o]
Verb
ganniō (present infinitive gannīre, perfect active gannīvī); fourth conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
Conjugation
- No perfect forms attested in Classical Latin.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “gang-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 352-353
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ganniō, -īre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 254
Further reading
- “gannio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gannio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “gannio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.