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Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese guerlanda (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), guirlanda. Probably from Old Occitan guirlanda (compare French guirlande). Compare Portuguese guirlanda and Spanish guirnalda.
Pronunciation
Noun
grilanda f (plural grilandas)
- garland
- wreath
1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 254:Et hũ dia vyña de mõte Liçeo et vyoa hũ deus que avia nome Pam -et dizẽ os autores que aeste chamauã os gentijs deus das cabras -, et este tragia ẽna cabeça hũa grilanda de pyno- And a day happened that, as she was coming from Mount Liceo, a god named Pan saw her -and the authors say that he was called by the gentiles god of the goats- and he was wearing a wreath of pine on his head
References
- “grilanda” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “landa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “grilanda” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “grilanda” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.