isqueiro

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Galician

Alternative forms

esqueiro

Etymology

Circa 1300. From isca +‎ -eiro.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /isˈkejɾo̝/

Noun

isqueiro m (plural isqueiros)

small container for tinder
- c. 1300, R. Martínez López, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 220:
  y achou cõ aquel arco hum estormento, et seu esqueyro, et sua ysca, et seu pedernal em el
  there he found, together with that bow, a tinderbox, with its tinder container, its tinder, and its flint inside it

References

Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “squeyro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “isqueiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (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), “isqueiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

isqueiro

Etymology

From isca (“tinder”) +‎ -eiro. Compare Spanish yesquero.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈke(j).ɾu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃˈke(j).ɾu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈke(j).ɾo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃˈkɐj.ɾu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃˈkej.ɾu/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃˈkej.ɾu/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃˈke.ɾu/

Rhymes: (Brazil) -ejɾu, -eɾu, (Portugal) -ɐjɾu
Hyphenation: is‧quei‧ro

Noun

isqueiro m (plural isqueiros)

lighter (fire making device)
Synonym: acendedor

Descendants

→ Tetum: iskeiru

Further reading

“isqueiro”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
“isqueiro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

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