Wanderword probably from Ladino, perhaps originally meaning “goat's bellows”, cognate with modern Spanish gaita, Basque gaita, Portuguese gaita. Loaned also into Macedonian гајда (gajda), Serbo-Croatian gajde pl, Serbo-Croatian га̑јде pl, Greek γκάιντα (gkáinta), Turkish gayda, Arabic غَيْطَة (ḡayṭa). False cognate with native onomatopoeiae Bulgarian га (ga) / га-га (ga-ga) (cawing, groaning sound), га́кам pf (gákam), га́ювам impf (gájuvam, “to squawk, to caw”) and further with Lithuanian gáida (“melody”).