Gontar

Galician

Etymology

From Latin Guntari, genitive of Guntarius, from a Suevic or Gothic personal name, from a compound *Gunþiharjaz, from Proto-Germanic *gunþiz (“battle”) and *harjaz (“army, warrior”).[1] Compate with German Günther and Old Norse Gunnar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡonˈtaɾ/

Proper noun

Gontar m

  1. a village in Coucieiro parish, Val do Dubra, A Coruña, Galicia

References

  • “Gontar” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
  • Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “Gontar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  1. ^ Cf. Piel, Joseph M.; Kremer, Dieter (1976), Hispano-gotisches Namenbuch, Heidelberg: Carl Winter - Universitätsverlag, →ISBN, p. 164.
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