braña

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Asturian

Map showing the distribution of brañas in Asturias and northern León
Braña of La Pornacal, Somiedu, Asturias

Noun

braña f (plural brañes)

  1. pasture; meadowland (especially a summertime pasture)
  2. mountain settlement populated by vaqueiros d'alzada during summer or winter, composed of houses with thatch roofs called teitos

Galician

Brañas de Xestoso, Galicia

Alternative forms

Etymology

Attested in local Medieval Latin documents, as brania, at least since the 10th century.[1] From a substrate language; perhaps from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“rotten, faul”),[2] either from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (“to smell, to have a strong odour”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”).[3] Cf. Old Irish brén (“putrid, rotten”) and Welsh braenar (“fallow ground”).

Pronunciation

Noun

braña f (plural brañas)

  1. mire, bog, fen, marsh
    Synonym: boedo
    • 1459, Fernando Tato, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, page 182:
      diso que oýra diser a Johán de Njne, fillo de Estéuõo, que Ferrnando de Deyra leua, pouco ha, hũu carro de salgeyros cortados por pee de Brandarís, cabo dos lagos da braña
      he said that he heard from Xoán of Nine, son of Estevo, that Fernando of Deira took away, a short time ago, a cart of willows cut down from Brandarís, by the lakes of the marsh
    • 1810, José Fernandez y Neira, Proezas de Galicia:
      poucos dias abia que alá xsunta à Bacelo biñan sesenta de acabalo, è preguntaronlle á un paysano por donde era ò camiño para Lugo, é él guiounos para donde estaba ùn-a gran braña, co mismo foi chegar à ela espetaronse de tal sorte cos cabalos, que anque traballasen toda ùn-a mañá inda non sey si sahirian
      just some days before, there upon Bacelo, sixty horsemen arrived, and asked a local where the way to Lugo was; and he guided them into a large mire, and as soon as they arrived there the horses got stuck in such a way that even working for a whole morning I don't know if they could have got out of it
  2. moorland or fallow ground

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Lapesa, Rafael (2004) Manuel Seco, editor, Léxico hispánico primitivo, Pozuelo de Alarcón: Ed. Espasa Calpe, →ISBN, s.v. branea.
  2. ^ Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1983–1991) “braña”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
  3. ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 71.

Spanish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɾaɲa/
  • Rhymes: -aɲa
  • Syllabification: bra‧ña

Noun

braña f (plural brañas)

  1. (northern Spain) meadow; meadowland
  2. (Asturias) village populated by Vaqueiros de Alzada

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