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Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese masseyra: synchronically masa (“dough”) + -eira.
Pronunciation
Noun
maseira f (plural maseiras)
- trough
- Synonyms: artesa, baño
1414, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 105:Iten, mando mays aa dita iglesia de Sant Pedro a miña caldeira e as gramalleiras e mesas e maseiras que teño eno forno de Millmanda- Item, I also bequeath to that church of Saint Peter my cauldron and the trammel and the tables and the troughs I have in the bakery of Milmanda
- kneading trough
- Synonym: artesa
- manger
- Synonyms: bacía, baño, barquela
References
- “masseyra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “maseira” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “maseira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “maseira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “maseira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.