gazda
التعريفات والمعاني
== Hungarian ==
=== Etymology ===
First attested in c. 1177. Borrowed from a Slavic language. Compare Proto-Slavic *gostьpoda. See Slovak gazda, Serbo-Croatian gazda.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈɡɒzdɒ]
Hyphenation: gaz‧da
Rhymes: -dɒ
=== Noun ===
gazda (plural gazdák)
master
farmer
host (in the expression házigazda)
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
==== Descendants ====
→ Bulgarian: га́зда (gázda) (dialectal)
→ Czech: gazda (dialectal)
→ Macedonian: газда (gazda)
→ Old Ruthenian: кгазда (gazda), ґазда (gazda)
Carpathian Rusyn: ґа́зда́ (gázdá)
Ukrainian: ґа́зда́ (gázdá) (dialectal)
→ Old Slovak: gazda
Pannonian Rusyn: ґазда (gazda)
Slovak: gazda
→ Polish: gazda (dialectal)
→ Romanian: gazdă
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: га̏зда
Latin script: gȁzda
→ Slovene: gȃzda (tonal orthography)
→ Slovak: gazda
=== References ===
=== Further reading ===
gazda in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
== Polish ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Hungarian gazda.
=== Pronunciation ===
Rhymes: -azda
Syllabification: gaz‧da
=== Noun ===
gazda m pers (female equivalent gaździna)
(agriculture, chiefly Podhale, Żywiec) Goral farmer
(Biecz) rich and powerful farmer
(Far Masovian, Łomża Voivodeship) synonym of próżniak
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
=== References ===
=== Further reading ===
“gazda”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[2] (in Polish)
Izydor Kopernicki (1875), “gazda”, in “Spostrzeżenia nad właściwościami językowémi w mowie Górali Bieskidowych z dodatkiem słowniczka wyrazów góralskich”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (I)[3], volume 3, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 370
Leon Rzeszowski (1891), “gazda”, in “Spis wyrazów ludowych z okolic Żywca”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności[4], volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 355
Roman Zawiliński (1880), “gazda”, in “Gwara brzezińska w pow. ropczyckim”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (I)[5] (in Polish), volume 8, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 228
Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “gazda”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego)”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 196
== Serbo-Croatian ==
=== Etymology ===
Possibly Borrowed from Hungarian gazda, from a Slavic language; see Proto-Slavic *gostьpoda. Possibly from Early South Slavic **gazditi + *-a, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *gadъ.
Németh 2009 explains the Old Hungarian gazda as a borrowing of Late Common Slavic *gostьpoda as **gospoda, yielding *gozda after the syncopy of -o-, with -spd- reduced to -sd-, then expectedly voiced to -zd-. The o > å opening process is widely attested in the 11th-14th century Old Hungarian. The disadvantage of this explanation is in its phonetic complexity.
An alternative is a connection with Trubachyov's Early South Slavic **gazditi "to gag", (< *gadъ-diti with -dd- > -zd- analogous to Early South Slavic *gyzda < *gydъ-diti (cf. *gyditi), *gvazdati), an etymology devised to explain Slovene dial. gáziti se "to gag" and Bulgarian газя "to shout" (which he deemed semantically incompatible with *gaziti). The disadvantage of this explanation is in its semantic complexity, requiring a shift chain "to gag" > "to shout" > (+ deverbal agentive -a) "shouter" ~ "overseer" (eventually "lord").
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ɡâzda/
=== Noun ===
gȁzda m anim (Cyrillic spelling га̏зда)
landlord
master
host
(colloquial) boss, bossman, head honcho
(of Romani) saar
==== Declension ====
==== See also ====
domaćin
gazdarica
=== Further reading ===
“gazda”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
== Slovak ==
=== Etymology ===
Inherited from Old Slovak gazda, borrowed from Hungarian gazda, from a Slavic language; see Proto-Slavic *gostьpoda.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ɡazda/, [ˈɡazda]
Rhymes: -azda
Hyphenation: gaz‧da
=== Noun ===
gazda m pers (relational adjective gazdovský, diminutive gazdík or gazdíček or gazdíčko)
host
==== Declension ====
=== Further reading ===
“gazda”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026