ontre

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Attested in Old Galician (Cantigas de Santa Maria) and rendered as unter in local Medieval Latin, derives probably[1] from Suevic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *under: compare Old High German unter (“among, between”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈontɾe̝/

Preposition

ontre

  1. between, among

References
  • “ontre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “ontre” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  1. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “entre”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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