sequeiro

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Galician

Sequeiros for chestnuts

Etymology

From seco (dry) +‎ -eiro.

Pronunciation

Noun

sequeiro m (plural sequeiros)

  1. a room or installation used for drying wood or nuts
    • 1438, Manuel Lucas Álvarez, Pedro Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada: Ediciós do Castro, page 226:
      que vos aforamos o nosso lugar de Souto do Rego [...] con tal condiçon que façades hy hun sequeyro e que o tenades cuberto e ben reparado
      we loan to you our place named Souto do Rego (Chestnut wood by the stream) on the condition that you should build a dryer there, and you should keep it repaired and roofed
  2. a dry terrain

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References

  • sequeyr” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • sequeiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • sequeiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • sequeiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.