bẽeiçon

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• bẽeyçõn, bẽeyçom, beeyçon, beiçom, beyçom, beyçon, beiçon, beyzón (Galicia)
• bẽeçõ, bençom, beençom, beemçom, bemçam, bençam, benção (Portugal)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin benedictiōnem (“blessing”).

Noun

bẽeiçon f

1. blessing
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 59:

     Et nos galardoaruollo emos este dom da beeyçom de Sam Pero

     and we will reward this gift to you with the blessing of St. Peter

Descendants

• Galician: beizón
• Portuguese: bênção

References

• “beiçon” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “beyçon” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.