Gajdar (m)
original: (гајдар)
any person who plays some kind of bagpipe (&c.)
Mentioned (only once) by Kuhač in a series of related terms, stating that "It is not up to me to decide whether the Russian word гаидукъ [gaiduk] and the Croatian hajduk belong here, but the words gajati¹ [WS: illegible [gaūti? (crucify)], gatalo (Russian гадатель [gadatel']), gatar [fortune-teller], gatati [to tell sb's fortune], would probably be related to the words gajda [bagpipe], gajdar [bagpiper], gadlje, [and] gadljar, because history tells us, that "bagpipes were once possessed by soothsayers and wizards / sorcerers / magicians, [who used them to remove things (?); transl. WS]"; NB: ➺ homonyms.
Kuhač, Franjo Š. [Šaver]: Prilog za poviest glasbe južnoslovjenske: Gajde [Contribution to the history of South Slavic music: Bagpipes]. In: Rad jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, knjiga L (Zagreb, 1879), p.70 [➺ p.70¹: »Miklošić].