podengo

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Galician

Podengo

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unknown: from Old Galician-Portuguese podengo (13th century; 11th century in Latin texts), either from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, or rather from Suevic or Gothic. Cognate with Portuguese podengo and Spanish podenco.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

podengo m (plural podengos)

  1. hound with stiff ears, historically used for rabbit hunting
    • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 134:
      Ca hũu arçipreste do castelo, ome mao et auol, foy aa caça et, el andando per aquel monte, caerõlle os podengos no rastro do conde et da jnfãte
      Because an archpriest of the castle, a mean and vile man, went hunting and, while wandering about that hill, his hounds found the trail of the count and the Princess

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “podenco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos