guado

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwa.do/, [ˈɡwäːd̪o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: guà‧do

Possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wadą (“ford”), from Proto-Indo-European *wadʰom, *wh₂dʰóm (ultimately from the root *weh₂dʰ-) perhaps through a Vulgar Latin *uadam. Compare French gué (“ford”), Catalan gual, Occitan ga. Other sources list it as deriving from Latin vadum,[1][2][3] itself from the same Proto Indo-European root as the Germanic, and thus cognate to it. However, it was likely influenced in pronunciation by the corresponding Germanic term (the change of Classical Latin V, originally pronounced /w/, to /v/ had probably already occurred in the Vulgar Latin dialects by the Proto-Romance era in the early Middle Ages; thus the normal result in Italian would have been *vado). Compare Spanish vado, Portuguese vau, Romanian vad, Sicilian vadu, which were not affected by the Germanic influence.

guado m (plural guadi)

1. ford
2. wade

• guadare

• vadoso

guado

1. first-person singular present indicative of guadare

From Lombardic waid[4] or Old High German weit,[5] from Proto-Germanic *waidą, *waidaz, from Proto-Indo-European *woydʰ- (“woad”). Compare French guède and English woad.

guado m (plural guadi)

1. woad, glastum (the plant Isatis tinctoria)
2. woad, indigo (blue dye)

• isatis tinctoria on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• guado on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it