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, Val do Dubra, A Coruña, Galicia.

References
  • “Gontar” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
  • “Gontar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  1. Cf. Piel, Joseph M.; Kremer, Dieter (1976) Hispano-gotisches Namenbuch, Heidelberg: Carl Winter - Universitätsverlag, →ISBN, p. 164.
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