ameneiro
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Galician[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Old Galician-Portuguese ameneyro (attested since 1457), from a substrate language's *amenno ("alder") + -eiro, a suffix which forms tree names; compare the related terms amieiro. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ameneiro m (plural ameneiros)
- black alder tree (Alnus glutinosa)
- black alder wood
Usage notes[edit]
Abeneiro or ameneiro is the usual name of the black alder in northwestern Galicia, while amieiro is the usual name in the south and the east.
References[edit]
- “ameneyro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “ameneiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “ameneiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “amieiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Categories:
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from substrate languages
- Galician terms suffixed with -eiro
- Galician terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician masculine nouns