ámago
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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown; perhaps from Vulgar Latin *amidum, from amylum (“starch”).[1] Cognate with Portuguese âmago and Spanish hámago.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ámago m (plural ámagos)
- elderberry marrow
- marrow or live bone under a horn or a hoof
- 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 149:
- fazese hũa espeçya dencrauadura que dana en fondo de dentro o tuello que chaman amago
- [the horses] can made a piercing that injures inside from the bottom the soft part called marrow
- sapwood
- lumps of pollen inside a beehive
- (figurative) pith
References
[edit]- “amago” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “ámago” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “ámago” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “ámago” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.