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Galician
Etymology
From Hispanic Late Latin scala (“bowl”) attested in Isidore of Seville,[1] probably from Suevic, from Proto-Germanic *skēlō (“bowl”).[2] Cognate with German Schale and Dutch schaal (“bowl”).
Pronunciation
Noun
escá f (plural escás)
- (historical) esca, a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 6–9 L depending on the substance measured
- (historical) esca, a box formerly used for measuring grain
1962, Xaquín Lorenzo, Etnografía: cultura material, Buenos Aires: Nós, page 207:A escá e o ferrado son dúas medidas de madeira que se empregan pra medí-los graus.- The escá and the ferrado are two units of measurement made in wood, used for measuring the grain.
- (archaic) Synonym of cunca, a bowl
- 1286, Miguel Romaní (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). 3 vols. Santiago: Tórculo Edicións (1989, 1989, 1993), page 1131:
et huna escaa de manteyga et dous queygios- and one bowl of butter and two cheeses
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References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “escaa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esca”, 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), “escá”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- ^ Xaime Varela Sieiro (2003) Léxico cotián na alta idade media de Galicia: o enxoval (in Galician), A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, pages 243-245.
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN