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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese eirado (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from eira (“threshing floor”) + -ado.
Pronunciation
Noun
eirado m (plural eirados)
- grain extended over the threshing floor in preparation for threshing
- homestead
- Synonyms: casal, eido
- square, plaza (in a hamlet)
- 1339, M. Lucas Alvarez; P. P. Lucas Domínguez (ed.), San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Publicacións de Caixa Galicia, page 488:
do outro cabo parten per la callela que uen do Penedo pera as cassas do abbade de Cellanoua et entesta en o eirado dante a torre do conçello- on the other extreme they depart from the alley that comes from Penedo to the houses of the abbot of Celanova, and ends in the plaza before the council's tower
- Synonym: quinteiro
References
- “eirado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “eirado” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “eirado” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “eirado” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “eirado” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.