гуна
See also: гуня
Bulgarian

A girl dressed in гуна
Etymology
A Paleo-Balkan wanderwort akin to Byzantine Greek γούνα (goúna, “coarse garment”), Albanian gunë (“goatskin coat”), Latin gunna (“leather garment”). Possibly stemming back from Proto-Slavic *guna/*guňa/*guňь, an early Scythian borrowing ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gawnám (“fur”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɡunə]
Noun
гу́на • (gúna) f (diminutive гу́нче or гу́ница)
Declension
Declension of гу́на
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
indefinite | гу́на gúna |
гу́ни gúni |
definite | гу́ната gúnata |
гу́ните gúnite |
Derived terms
- гуне́тина (gunétina, “leather coat”) (dialectal)
References
- гуна in Rečnik na bǎlgarskija ezik (Institut za bǎlgarski ezik)
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “гуня, гуна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 294
Macedonian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɡuna]
Russian
Alternative forms
- гу́ня (gúnja)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɡunə]
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