xornal
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Acción Coruñesa.
Asturian
Noun
xornal m (plural xornales)
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese jornal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin diurnalis. Cognate with Portuguese jornal, Asturian xornal, Spanish jornal, French journal.
Noun
xornal m (plural xornais)
- a day's work
- 1378, M. M. Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500). Separata de Estudios Mindonienses, page 159:
- Et outrosy, se as casas quaeren ou arderen ou falleçeren en nosas vidas de nos as tres pesoas, por alguna maneira, que nos et os fraires que foren ao dito tenpo en no dito llugar, que as corregamos de pormedeo et tanben todo o outro llavor qual quier que y ouuer mester, que seia prol das ditas casas, que se faça senpre de pormedeo, nos et vos, saluo se for tal llauor que non aia y mester mays que hun jornal, que o façamos nos por nosa custa
- And also, if the houses collapse or burn or fail during the lifetime of we three, in any way, then we and the friars that at that time were at that place must correct them, jointly, and also any other work which could be needed for the benefit of these houses, all must be made always jointly, we and you, except if it is such a work that it would take no more than a day's work, them we must make it by ourselves
- Et outrosy, se as casas quaeren ou arderen ou falleçeren en nosas vidas de nos as tres pesoas, por alguna maneira, que nos et os fraires que foren ao dito tenpo en no dito llugar, que as corregamos de pormedeo et tanben todo o outro llavor qual quier que y ouuer mester, que seia prol das ditas casas, que se faça senpre de pormedeo, nos et vos, saluo se for tal llauor que non aia y mester mays que hun jornal, que o façamos nos por nosa custa
- Synonym: xeira
- 1378, M. M. Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500). Separata de Estudios Mindonienses, page 159:
- wage, salary
- 1417, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 61:
- Mandaron ao dito Bernaldo Yanes que pagase a Alvaro da Rocha, pedreiro, por seu jornal nove maravedis a III dineiros, cada dia
- They ordered the aforementioned Bernaldo Yanes to pay Álvaro da Rocha, stonemason, as his wage, nine maravedis, each one of III denaries, each day
- Mandaron ao dito Bernaldo Yanes que pagase a Alvaro da Rocha, pedreiro, por seu jornal nove maravedis a III dineiros, cada dia
- 1417, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 61:
- journal, diary
- Synonym: diario
- newspaper, news
- (now regional) a traditional unit of land area originally denoting a day's work in a vineyard
- 1447, J. García Oro (1987), "Viveiro en los siglos XIV y XV. La Colección Diplomática de Santo Domingo de Viveiro", Estudios Mindonienses, 3, page 93:
- diso que el levava e leva en Vilares que he en esta dita freguesia hunna casa e nove jornaes de vinnas con ela
- he said that that he worked and works, in Vilares which is in this parish, a house with nine jornals of vine with it
- 1447, J. García Oro (1987), "Viveiro en los siglos XIV y XV. La Colección Diplomática de Santo Domingo de Viveiro", Estudios Mindonienses, 3, page 93:
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References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “jornal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “jorna”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “xornal”, 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), “xornal”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “xornal”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN