seimeira

Galician

Seimeira de Vilagocende, Galicia

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia salime (compare Asturian Salime), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (to move quickly),[1] and the Romance suffix -eira.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sejˈmejɾa̝/

Noun

seimeira f (plural seimeiras)

  1. waterfall
    Synonyms: cachón, cadoiro, cenza, fervenza, freixa

References

  1. J. P. Mallory, D. Q. Adams (2006 August 24) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, retrieved 17 May 2018, page 397
  2. Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. seimeira.
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