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Galician
Etymology
Onomatopoeic. Cognate with dialectal Spanish zangaño (“shaft, crankshaft”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (standard) /saŋˈɡano/
- IPA(key): (gheada) /saŋˈħano/
- Rhymes: -ano
- Hyphenation: san‧ga‧no
Noun
sangano m (plural sanganos)
- (archaic) goose, gander
- Synonym: ganso
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “angano”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sangano”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega