canaveira

Galician

Alternative forms
  • caniveira

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From canavea (“reed”) +‎ -eira.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kanaˈβejɾɐ]

Noun

canaveira m (plural canaveiras)

  1. common reed
    Synonym: carrizo
    • 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 254:
      Et aquel deus Pam [...] estando el aly veẽo hum pouco de vento et moveo aquelas canaueyras et fazia em ellas hũ som que dizia syrim et esto era que aquelas canaveyras [queriã] dizer ¡Syringa!
      And while being there this god Pan [...] a little wind came and moved those reeds, and made in them a sound that says syrim, and this is what these reeds wanted to say: Syringe [panpipes]!
  2. cane
    Synonyms: cana, canavela

References
  • “canaveyra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “canaueyra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “canaveira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “canaveira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “canaveira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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