amieiro

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From older ameeyro, from a substrate language's *ameno ("alder") + -eiro, a suffix which forms tree names; compare the related terms Amial from Amenālem and Amedo from Amenētum. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

amieiro m (plural amieiros)

  1. black alder tree (Alnus glutinosa)
    Synonyms: abeneiro, ameneiro
  2. black alder wood
    • 1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 413:
      an de dar dosentos madeiros de castaño ou de ameyro, de dez cóbedos en longo cada huun
      They shall give two hundred logs of chestnut or of black alder, ten cubits long each one

Usage notes

Abeneiro or ameneiro is the usual name of the black alder in northwestern Galicia, while amieiro is the usual name in the south and the east.

References

  1. ^ Bascuas, Edelmiro (2002). Estudios de hidronimia paleoeuropea gallega. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade, Servicio de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico. p. 257-259. →ISBN.

Portuguese

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amieiro (Alnus glutinosa)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “sources for the etymology?”)Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese *amẽeiro, from Vulgar Latin *amoenārium.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.miˈe(j).ɾu/ , (faster pronunciation) /aˈmje(j).ɾu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.miˈe(j).ɾo/ , (faster pronunciation) /aˈmje(j).ɾo/
 

  • Hyphenation: a‧mi‧ei‧ro

Noun

amieiro m (plural amieiros)

  1. alder (any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus)

Derived terms