Lixbõa

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Lisbõa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لِشْبُونَة (lišbūna), from Latin Olisīpō, from Phoenician or Tartessian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liʃ.ˈbõ.a/

Proper noun

Lixbõa

1. A city in central Portugal.
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 277 (facsimile):

     Eles de Liſbõa eran. ⁊ atal pꝛeito poſerõ. ontreſſi q̃ coꝛrer foſſẽo algarue ſi feꝣeron.

     They were from Lisbon. And agreed among themselves to go to Algarve and they did that.

Descendants

• Galician: Lisboa
• Portuguese: Lisboa (see there for further descendants)
• → Mirandese: Lisboua

Further reading

• Universo Cantigas - "Lixboa"