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Gudija

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Lithuanian

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Gudija

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From gudas (“Belarusian”) +‎ -ija, from southeastern dialectal gudėti (“start speaking another dialect or language”). The prior meaning is believed to have been "foreigner, unable to speak Lithuanian"[1] (compare Proto-Slavic *němьcь (“foreigner, non-Slav, specifically of Germanic peoples”) from *němъ (“mute, unclear or incomprehensible speaker”)), and later narrowed to refer to East Slavic peoples specifically.

Further etymology unclear, but possibly from Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰 (*guta, “Goth”), first adopted to refer to the Goths, then - to foreign peoples in general.[2]

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Gùdija f

  1. Belarus (a country in Eastern Europe)

Declension

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Declension of Gudija
nominative Gudija
genitive Gudijos
dative Gudijai
accusative Gudiją
instrumental Gudija
locative Gudijoje
vocative Gudija

Synonyms

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See also

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countries in Europe: Euròpos valstýbės (appendix)edit

References

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  1. ^ Kamuntavičius, Rūstis (2021), “Dėl Gudijos pavadinimo”, in VLKK‎[1], National Commission on the Lithuanian Language, archived from the original on 1 January 2022
  2. ^ Gudavičius, Edvardas ((Can we date this quote?)), “Gudai”, in VLE, Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija
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