garganta

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese garganta; from a substrate language *gʷr̥h₃gn̥t- (“throat”), cognate with Proto-Celtic *brāgants (“neck, throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to shallow”).[1][2] Alternatively, onomatopoeic.[3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡaɾˈɣanta̝/

Noun

garganta f (plural gargantas)

  1. (anatomy) throat
    Synonym: gorxa
  2. (anatomy) gullet
  3. gorge
    Synonym: desfiladeiro

Derived terms

References
  • “garganta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “garganta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “garganta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “garganta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “garganta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 72-73
  2. Bascuas, Edelmiro (2002). Estudios de hidronimia paleoeuropea gallega. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade, Servicio de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico. p. 330-331. →ISBN.
  3. Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. garganta.

Occitan

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɡarˈɡanto]

Noun

garganta f (plural gargantas)

  1. (anatomy) throat

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese garganta and Spanish garganta.

Noun

garganta

  1. neck
  2. throat

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese garganta, of onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɡɐɾ.ˈɣɐ̃.tɐ/
  • Hyphenation: gar‧gan‧ta

Noun

garganta f (plural gargantas)

  1. (anatomy) throat

Spanish
Garganta a la izquierda de la altura media de la imagen (throat in the left middle height of image).

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, garg

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɣ̞a̠ɾˈɣ̞a̠n.ta̠], [ɡa̠ɾˈɡa̠n.ta̠]

Noun

garganta f (plural gargantas)

  1. (anatomy) throat

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Descendants
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