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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Nyunga gwernda.
Noun
quenda (plural quendas)
- A short-nosed bandicoot found mostly in southern Australia, Isoodon obesulus.
Synonyms
References
Quendas, WA CALM
Anagrams
Galician
Etymology
15th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese caenda (13th century, attested in Old Galician documents), from Latin kalendae, the first day of the month. Doublet of calendas.
Pronunciation
Noun
quenda f (plural quendas)
- turn (a chance to do or to use something in sequence with others)
- Synonyms: rolda, veceira, xeira
- (archaic, in the plural) calends
- Synonym: calendas
1433, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 20:todos ordenaron et feseron seu procurador en todo este dito ano, ata dia de quendas janeyras a Meen Suares Galinato- Everyone ordered and made their proxy, for the whole year till the first say of January, Meen Suares Galinato
References
- “quendas” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “caendas” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “quenda” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “quenda” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “quenda” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.