agua bẽeyta

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Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Inherited from Late Latin aqua benedicta. Piecewise doublet of agua bendita.

    Noun

    agua bẽeyta f (plural agua bẽeytas)

    1. (Christianity) holy water
      • 1295, anonymous author, ; republished as chapter 1, in Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: Instituto de Estudios Oresanos, 1975, page 814:
        Mays esse bispo dõ Iohan, cõ os outros bispos sobredictos, deyta[d]a fora a suzidade de Mafomad, (et) çercarõ arredor toda aquella mesquita, espargẽdo agoa bẽeyta per ella com̃o deujã []
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    Descendants

    • Galician: auga bieita
    • Portuguese: água benta

    References

    • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “agua beeyta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG