Gdańsk
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Gdańsk
- A city on the north coast of Poland.
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- (city in Poland): Danzig
Translations[edit]
city of Poland
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Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Disputed. Per Vasmer, derived from Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌽𐍃. Eckblom rejects this, and many various etymologists suggest a native Proto-Slavic stem of *gъd- (“wet, damp”) and point to place names such as Gdynia and Gdecz (modern Giecz) as further reflexes of that stem. Others still suggest a Proto-Baltic stem of *gud- (Baltic reflexes including Old Prussian gudde (“forest”), gudas (“Belarusian: person speaking a foreign language”) or Lithuanian gudkarklis (“damp pasture”), gudobelė (“hawthorn”). Many etymologists support the Proto-Baltic origin, with an original stem of *Gud- + *-an + *-isk ("place of the forest people").[1]
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Proper noun[edit]
Gdańsk m inan (related adjective gdański)
- Gdańsk (the capital city of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
- Hypernym: Trójmiasto
Declension[edit]
Declension of Gdańsk
Derived terms[edit]
nouns
References[edit]
- ^ Kazimierz Rymut, Urszula Bijak, Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch, editors (1999), “Gdańsk”, in Nazwy miejscowe Polski: historia, pochodzenie, zmiany[1] (in Polish), volume 3, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Języka Polskiego PAN, →ISBN, page 110
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