Noun: gaine
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | gaine |
| Plural f | gaines |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like gaine
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle French guaine, from Old French guaïne, inherited from Latin vāgīna (“sheath, scabbard”). Doublet of borrowed vagin. Cognate with Italian guaina, Catalan beina, Spanish vaina, Portuguese bainha.
2. The change of the onset from Vulgar Latin /v/ to Old French /(ɡ)w/ is due to Germanic influence. One theory sees in it a confluence with Frankish *wāgi (“cup”, compare Old English wǣġe). Alternatively it might be simply that as a military term the word was used most frequently among the Frankish warrior class and therefore came to be generalised in the form corresponding to their accent. See: Latin Nouns '
vāgīna', Italian Nouns '
guaina', Catalan Nouns '
beina', Spanish Nouns '
vaina', Portuguese Nouns '
bainha', Old English Nouns '
wǣġe'.
Verbs referencing "gaine"
Portuguese Nouns
bainha, Italian Nouns
guaina, English Nouns
gay, Galician Nouns
vaíña.
Translations