xeira

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Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From an older jeyra, geyra, from Medieval Latin diāria (“daily”), from Latin diēs (“day”). Cognate with Spanish jera.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

xeira f (plural xeiras)

  1. day's work
    Synonym: xornal
  2. work; task
  3. tiredness
  4. land which can be plowed in a day with a single pair of oxen
    • 1451, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 133:
      Iten, un lugar en Raynros, que ten hua casa e hua cabadura de viña e dous ou tres geyras de tarreo de lebar pan
      Item, a hamlet in Raynros, which has a house and a vineyard and two or three xeiras of land suitable for growing cereals
  5. day's walk; journey; road
  6. time worked for a neighbour or for the community, in exchange for a future similar help
  7. series

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • “xeira” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “xeira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “xeira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “xeira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “jera”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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