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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese barqueiro, from barco (“boat”) + -eiro.
Pronunciation
Noun
barqueiro m (plural barqueiros, feminine barqueira, feminine plural barqueiras)
- boatman
1432, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 385:paresçeron y Gonçalvo Baluga e Pero de Reça, barqueiros da barqa d'agua do Miño, perteesçente ao dito conçello e ao bispo d'Ourense- there appeared Gonzalvo Baluga and Pedro de Reza, boatmen of the barge of the river Miño, which belongs to said town council and to the bishop of Ourense
References
- “barqueiro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “barqueiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “barqueiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “barqueiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese
Etymology
From barco (“boat”) + -eiro.
Pronunciation
Noun
barqueiro m (plural barqueiros, feminine barqueira, feminine plural barqueiras)
- boatman (a man in charge of a small boat)