ameneyro

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From a substrate language's *amenno ("alder") + -eiro, a suffix which forms tree names; compare the related terms ameeyro. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ameˈnejɾo/

Noun

ameneyro m

  1. (Galicia) black alder tree (Alnus glutinosa)
    Synonym: ameeyro
    • 1457, Fernando Tato Plaza, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos:
      Jtem diso que oýra deser que avía Sã Justo ẽno agro d'Ovele, arredor del, hũa deuesa d'ameneyros, arredor do agro
      Item, he said that he had heard say that [the monastery of] Saint Justus had in the field of Ovelle, around it, a copse of black alders, around the field

Descendants
  • Galician: ameneiro

References
  • “ameneyro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  1. Bascuas, Edelmiro (2002). Estudios de hidronimia paleoeuropea gallega. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade, Servicio de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico. p. 257-259. →ISBN.
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