reiseñor
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Reiseñor or rousinol
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese ruissennor (14th century, Alfonso Álvarez de Villasandino), borrowed from Old Occitan rossinhol, from Vulgar Latin *lusciniolus, diminutive of Classical Latin luscinia (“nightingale”). Cognate with Portuguese rouxinol and Spanish ruiseñor.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
reiseñor m (plural reiseñores)
- nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)
- 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega:
- un sinfín de paxaros ben cantores
reiseñores o xílgaro e o sirín- an endless number of singing birds:
nightingales, the goldfinch and the serin
- an endless number of singing birds:
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ruissennor”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “reiseñor”, 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), “reiseñor”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “reiseñor”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rousinol”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “ruiseñor”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos