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Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Late Latin aqua benedicta. Piecewise doublet of agua bendita.
Noun
agua bẽeyta f (plural agua bẽeytas)
- (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 […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “agua beeyta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG