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Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Latin pugnus, from Proto-Italic *pugnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-.
Noun
punno m (plural punnos)
- fist (clenched hand)
1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: CSIC, page 117:Ferragudo desque a perdeu coudou a matar Rrulan, et çarrou o puño et doulle cõ el ẽna cabeça do caualo et matoullo.- Ferragut, as soon as he lost it, decided to kill Roland; and he closed his fist and struck it on the horse's head, killing it
Descendants
References
- Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2024) “punno”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: UDC, →ISSN
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “punno”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “punno”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG