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Asturian
Pronunciation
Noun
marxe m (plural márxenes)
- margin
Galician
Etymology
15th century (margẽe). From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin marginem, accusative of margo (“edge, brink, border, margin”), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ-. Cognate with Portuguese margem and Spanish margen.
Pronunciation
Noun
marxe f (plural marxes)
- bank, terrain on the side of a river or a road
- Synonyms: beira, orela, ribeira
- strip of uncultivated land in the outer limits of a terrain
- 1409, Tomé Pensado, José Luis (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 67:
- Et pois ueer tenpo frio deuenno cauallgar et fazerlle trotar porllas margẽes et porllas aradas mansamente pella mañaa
- And after the cold weather |come, they should ride the colt and make him trot by the margins and by the ploughed fields gently in the morning
- Synonyms: arró, cómaro
- margin (edge of paper which remains blank)
- Synonyms: beira, bordo
- margin (permissible difference)
- (archaic) unit of measure of surface
- Synonym: marxa
Derived terms
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “margee”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “marg”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “marxe”, 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), “marxe”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “marxe”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN