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Asturian
Noun
colchón m (plural colchones)
- mattress
Galician
Etymology
Attested since 1457. From colcha + -ón, from Old French colche. Compare Portuguese colchão and Spanish colchón.
Pronunciation
Noun
colchón m (plural colchóns)
- mattress
- 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:
Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.- Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a blanket of coarse linen, and if there is in the house a pair of quilts, she should have one of them
References
- Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “colchon”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “colch”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- “colchón” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “colchón” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “colchón” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish
Etymology
From colcha + -ón. Cognate with Portuguese colchão.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kolˈt͡ʃon/
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: col‧chón
Noun
colchón m (plural colchones)
- mattress (pad on which a person can recline and sleep)
- buffer, cushion, padding (something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact)
- (figurative) nest egg
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