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Borrowed from Polish Gdańsk. Doublet of Danzig.

Gdańsk

  1. The capital city of Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
    Synonym: Danzig

city of Poland

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)

  1. Gdańsk (the capital city of Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
    Hypernym: Trójmiasto
  1. ^ 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