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Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
From a substrate language's *amenno ("alder") + -eiro, a suffix which forms tree names; compare the related terms ameeyro. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
ameneyro m (plural ameneyros)
- (Galicia) black alder tree (Alnus glutinosa)
- Synonym: ameeyro
1457, Fernando Tato Plaza, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos:Jtem diso que oýra deser que avía Sã Justo ẽno agro d'Ovele, arredor del, hũa deuesa d'ameneyros, arredor do agro- Item, he said that he had heard say that Saint Justus had in the field of Ovelle, around it, a copse of black alders, around the field
Descendants
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ameneyro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- ^ Bascuas, Edelmiro (2002). Estudios de hidronimia paleoeuropea gallega. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade, Servicio de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico. p. 257-259. →ISBN.