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Galician
Etymology
Attested since the 15th century: casca (“husk”) + -ón.
Pronunciation
Noun
cascón m (plural cascóns)
- dried empty chestnut
1418, Sada / A Coruña, edited by Manuel Lucas Álvarez and Pedro Lucas Domínguez, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Ediciós do Castro, page 148:seys teegas de castanas secas et linpas et escolleytas dos cascõõs et do podre- six measures of dry and clean chesnuts, free of empty ones and of rotten ones
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “casc”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cascón”, 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), “cascón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cascón”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN