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Galician
Etymology
Attested during the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. From Old Galician-Portuguese dessũu (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin de sub ūnum. Cognate with Old Spanish de so uno.
Adverb
desún
- (archaic) together, jointly, at once
1296, M. Lucas Alvarez, edited by P. P. Lucas Domínguez, San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media, Santiago: Caixa Galicia, page 448:hun uosso fillo ou filla que ouuerdes anbus de suun- a son or daughter of yours that you both could have together
c. 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 131:Para esto ual a çebolla assada pisada con miucas da terra et con as llesmez et con manteyga rretuda desuu, todo amasado et coyto et meixudo todo ataa que se torne espeso como jngento- for this is valid roasted onion crushed with earthworms and with slugs and melted butter all together, mixed and cooked and stirred till is thick as an ointment
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