xunco

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Galician

Xuncos ("rushes")

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese junco, from Latin iūncus.

Pronunciation

Noun

xunco m (plural xuncos)

  1. rush, reed
    • 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 87:
      Et nõ vestiam vestidura nẽgũa cõmo os de agora; mays [hũus] ajuntauã cõ eruas et cõ juncos omellor que podiã das follas das aruores et das cortezas delas
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Derived terms

References

  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (20062022) “junco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “junco”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • xunco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • xunco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • xunco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.