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Galician
Etymology
From older cavianca, attested in local Latin documents since 940 CE, perhaps from Latin cavea (“hollow, cavity”) and a substrate prefix -anca.
Pronunciation
Noun
caivanca f (plural caivancas)
- gully; hollow
- Synonym: vaguada
- ravine
- Synonyms: corgo, groba
Derived terms
References
- "caveanca" in Gallaeciae Monumenta Historica.
- “caivanca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “queivanca”, 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), “caivanca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “caivanca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN