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Asturian
Etymology
Compare Spanish vecera, from vez.
Pronunciation
Noun
vecera f (plural veceres)
- (uncountable) a system whereby villagers take turns watching a communal herd
- 1991, Equipu Bueida, El Pueblo Quirosán: una Unidá Social in Cultures, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, page 36:
La vecera foi acabando nos pueblos de Quirós alredor de finales de los cincuenta y principios de los sesenta d’esti sieglu.- The vecera started disappearing in the villages of Quirós around the end of the fifties and beginning of the sixties of this century.
- the herd herded with this system
- 1991, Equipu Bueida, El Pueblo Quirosán: una Unidá Social in Cultures, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, page 29:
La vecera tenía de salir y tornar tolos díes al pueblu.- The vecera had to leave and return to the village every day.
Spanish
Noun
vecera f (plural veceras)
- female equivalent of vecero