gannio

Latin

Etymology

According to Pokorny, from a Proto-Indo-European root common to English kink, Polish gęgać (“to gaggle”) and Ancient Greek γογγρύζω (gongrúzō, “to grunt”).[1] De Vaan notes that most of the non-Slavic words mentioned by Pokorny seem to trace back to a Proto-Indo-European *gang- (“to mock”), and is skeptical of their affiliation with the Latin term, the latter whose primary meaning seems to be more "to growl" than "to mock". He thus separates the Slavic words as the most likely comparanda (see also Russian гугнивый (gugnivyj, “(uncommon) speaking through the nose”)), and considers them, as well as the Latin, to be onomatopoeic.[2]

Pronunciation

Verb

ganniō (present infinitive gannīre, perfect active gannīvī); fourth conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

  1. to yelp, bark
  2. (figuratively) to grumble, snarl; gabble

Conjugation
   Conjugation of ganniō (fourth conjugation, no supine stem, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present ganniō gannīs gannit gannīmus gannītis ganniunt
imperfect ganniēbam ganniēbās ganniēbat ganniēbāmus ganniēbātis ganniēbant
future ganniam ganniēs ganniet ganniēmus ganniētis gannient
perfect gannīvī gannīvistī gannīvit gannīvimus gannīvistis gannīvērunt,
gannīvēre
pluperfect gannīveram gannīverās gannīverat gannīverāmus gannīverātis gannīverant
future perfect gannīverō gannīveris gannīverit gannīverimus gannīveritis gannīverint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present ganniam ganniās ganniat ganniāmus ganniātis ganniant
imperfect gannīrem gannīrēs gannīret gannīrēmus gannīrētis gannīrent
perfect gannīverim gannīverīs gannīverit gannīverīmus gannīverītis gannīverint
pluperfect gannīvissem gannīvissēs gannīvisset gannīvissēmus gannīvissētis gannīvissent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — gannī — — gannīte —
future — gannītō gannītō — gannītōte ganniuntō
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives gannīre gannīvisse — — — —
participles ganniēns — — — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
ganniendī ganniendō ganniendum ganniendō — —

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Catalan: ganyir
  • Dalmatian: ganer
  • Galician: ganir
  • Italian: gannire, ⇒ gagnolare, gagnolio
  • Old French: rejaner
  • Portuguese: ganir
  • Spanish: gañir

References
  • “gannio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “gannio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • gannio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) “gang-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 352-353
  2. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 254-5
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