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Borrowed from Polish Gdańsk. Doublet of Danzig.
Gdańsk
- The capital city of Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
Synonym: Danzig
city of Poland
- Albanian: Dancigu
- Arabic: غْدَانْسْك f (ḡdānsk)
- Armenian: Գդանսկ (hy) (Gdansk)
- Azerbaijani: Qdansk
- Belarusian: Гданьск m (Hdanʹsk)
- Bengali: গদানস্ক (gôdansk)
- Bulgarian: Гданск m (Gdansk)
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 格但斯克 (zh) (Gédànsīkè) - Czech: Gdaňsk (cs) m
- Danish: Gdansk, Danzig (pre-1945 period)
- Dutch: Gdańsk n
- Esperanto: Dancigo
- Farefare: Dantsi
- Finnish: Gdansk
- French: Gdańsk (fr) m, Dantzig (fr) m, Dantzick (fr) m
- Georgian: გდანსკი (gdansḳi)
- German: Danzig (de) n, Gdańsk (de) n
East Central German: Danzich n (Silesian) - Greek: Γκντανσκ (el) n (Gkntansk), Ντάντσιχ n (Ntántsich) (former name)
- Hebrew: גדנסק f
- Hindi: ग्दान्यस्क (gdānyask)
- Hungarian: Gdańsk (hu), Dancka (former name)
- Italian: Danzica f, Gdańsk (it)
- Japanese: グダニスク (Gudanisuku)
- Kashubian: Gduńsk (csb) m
- Korean: 그단스크 (ko) (Geudanseukeu)
- Latin: Gedanum n, Gedania f, Dantiscum n
- Latvian: Gdaņska
- Lithuanian: Gdanskas
- Low German:
German Low German: Danzig n - Macedonian: Гдањск m (Gdanjsk)
- Norwegian:
Bokmål: Gdańsk n
Nynorsk: Gdańsk n - Old Church Slavonic: Гъданьскъ (Gŭdanĭskŭ)
- Persian: گدانسک (gedânsk)
- Polish: Gdańsk (pl) m
- Portuguese: Gdansk f, Danzig f (formerly), Danzigue f
- Romanian: Gdańsk n, Gdansk n
- Russian: Гданьск (ru) m (Gdanʹsk)
- Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Гдањск m
Latin: Gdanjsk m - Sindhi: گڊانسڪ (gḍā̃sk)
- Slovak: Gdansk m
- Slovene: Gdansk m inan
- Spanish: Gdansk (es) m, Danzig (es) (formerly)
- Swedish: Gdańsk (sv) n, Danzig (sv) n
- Thai: กดัญสก์ (gà-dan-sa)
- Turkish: Gdańsk
- Ukrainian: Гданськ (uk) m (Hdansʹk)
- Vietnamese: Gdańsk
- Yiddish: דאַנץ (dants)
Gdańsk
Disputed. Per Vasmer, derived from Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌽𐍃 (*gutans, “Goths”). 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-, with 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]
Gdańsk m inan (related adjective gdański, demonym gdańszczanin, female demonym gdańszczanka)
- Gdańsk (the capital city of Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
Hypernym: Trójmiasto
- → Czech: Gdaňsk
- → English: Gdańsk
- → Latin: Gedānum
- → Russian: Гданьск (Gdanʹsk)
- → Slovak: Gdansk
- → Ukrainian: Ґданськ (Gdansʹk)
- ^ Kazimierz Rymut, Urszula Bijak, Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch, editors (1999), “Gdańsk”, in Nazwy miejscowe Polski: historia, pochodzenie, zmiany (in Polish), volume 3, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Języka Polskiego PAN, →ISBN, page 110