axeito

Attested since the 13th century. Back-formation from axeitar (“to adjust, accommodate”)

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axeito m (plural axeitos)

1. strip of land which is left behind a wall, fence or hedge but which belongs to the same property
   • 1296, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 205:

     outorgo aquel meu logar de Ffafiáés τ caſas τ quintáás τ vinas, herdades τ herdamẽtos τ chãtados τ deueſas τ aieytos τ rriſíj́os τ muyños τ ſſeſſegas de muyños

     I grant that place of mine of Fafiáns and houses and yards and vineyards, heirlooms and properties and plantations and woodland and adjustments and residues and mills and plots for mills

   Synonym: resío

• axeitar

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “aieytos”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “axeito”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “axeito”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

axeito

1. first-person singular present indicative of axeitar