lechuza
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Spanish
Etymology
The Latin word was noctua (“owl”, literally “night bird”), which would have created Old Spanish *notua or *nochuza. Lechuza apparently resulted from a cross between Old Spanish *nochuza and leche (“milk”), due to the popular belief at the time that owls came at night to give babies milk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /leˈt͡ʃuθa/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /leˈt͡ʃusa/
Audio (Spain): (file) - (Spain) Rhymes: -uθa
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -usa
- Syllabification: le‧chu‧za
Noun
lechuza f (plural lechuzas)
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References
- ^ Brodsky, Spanish Vocabulary: An Etymological Approach
Further reading
- “lechuza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
lechuza on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
