Talk:gaucho

Missing sense?
Webster 1913 has this, which seems different: "A member of an Indian population, somewhat affected by Spanish blood, in the archipelagoes off the Chilean coast." Not sure whether it needs to be capitalised. Equinox ◑ 13:25, 11 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Could just be plain wrong, as I've never heard that and Wikipedia has no mention of it. A search through Google Books with some promising keywords doesn't turn up anything either. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 22:19, 11 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Mmm. In my experience, the W1913 material is always based on something, but sometimes it's based on a single work &mdash; especially with things like the dialectal names of birds &mdash; and in those cases we can't get our three citations. (Mr Webster didn't have the luxury of running a keyword search over a database, so couldn't necessarily gauge the frequency of a word.) I wonder what the work was in this case! Equinox ◑ 23:31, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Etymology from eswiki
Eswiki claims:

''Una opinión que ha tomado fuerza en los últimos años indica que tanto la palabra «guaso» como «gaucho» tendrían raíz hispana, específicamente originada en Andalucía, donde a la falta de gracia se le denomina «huasa»; al exceso de gracia, «guasón»; y al campesino que también habría sido el étimo de la palabra gaucho: «gacho». La combinación de esas tres palabras habría originado el término «huaso» para referirse al hombre de campo chileno...''

with this ref.

Zezen (talk) 11:26, 2 November 2021 (UTC)