ameneyro

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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)

  1. (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

  • Galician: ameneiro

References

  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “ameneyro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  1. ^ Bascuas, Edelmiro (2002). Estudios de hidronimia paleoeuropea gallega. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade, Servicio de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico. p. 257-259. →ISBN.