lechuza
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Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish nechuza, influenced by leche (“milk”) due to a popular belief that owls “breastfeed” human infants at night.[1]
Coromines supposes that Old Spanish nechuza developed via vowel dissimilation from an older *nochuza, a derivative of an also-unattested *nochua (as gentuza < gente), and that inherited from Latin noctua (“owl”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /leˈt͡ʃuθa/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /leˈt͡ʃusa/
Audio (Spain): (file) - Rhymes: -uθa
- Rhymes: -usa
- Syllabification: le‧chu‧za
Noun
lechuza f (plural lechuzas)
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References
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “lechuza”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 617
- ^ Brodsky, Spanish Vocabulary: An Etymological Approach
Further reading
- “lechuza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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