amieiro
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Galician[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From older ameeyro, from a substrate language's *ameno ("alder") + -eiro, a suffix which forms tree names; compare the related terms Amial from Amenālem and Amedo from Amenētum. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
amieiro m (plural amieiros)
- black alder tree (Alnus glutinosa)
- black alder wood
- 1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 413:
- an de dar dosentos madeiros de castaño ou de ameyro, de dez cóbedos en longo cada huun
- They shall give two hundred logs of chestnut or of black alder, ten cubits long each one
Usage notes[edit]
Abeneiro or ameneiro is the usual name of the black alder in northwestern Galicia, while amieiro is the usual name in the south and the east.
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References[edit]
- “ameeyr” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “amieyr” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “ameiro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “amieiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “amieiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “amieiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “sources for the etymology?”)Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese *amẽeiro, from Vulgar Latin *amoenārium.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: a‧mi‧ei‧ro
Noun[edit]
amieiro m (plural amieiros)
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