miuca
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Old Galician-Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain. Given the Asturian cognates (milu, meruca) and some current Galician (mioca, moca) and Portuguese forms (mioca), perhaps from *milo- + -oca, or *milokka, from a substrate language. The modern forms Portuguese minhoca and Galician miñoca are due to progressive nasalization, as minha, miña from Latin mea.
If related or derived from Proto-Celtic *mīlom (“animal”), then from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (“small animal”).
Noun[edit]
miuca f (plural miucas)
- (Galicia) earthworm
- c. 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 131:
- Para esto ual a çebolla assada pisada con miucas da terra et con as llesmez et con manteyga rretuda desuu, todo amasado et coyto et meixudo todo ataa que se tome espeso como jngento
- for this is valid roasted onion crushed with earthworms and with slugs and melted butter, all together, kneaded and cooked and stirred till is thick as an ointment
Descendants[edit]
- Galician: miñoca, binoca, binocra, mañoca, mexoca, minoca, mioca, miocra, moca; minhoca
- Portuguese: minhoca, menhoca, minoca, mioca
References[edit]
- “miuca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “miñoca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- “minhoca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Categories:
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms with unknown etymologies
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms suffixed with -oca
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from substrate languages
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Galician-Portuguese lemmas
- Old Galician-Portuguese nouns
- Old Galician-Portuguese feminine nouns
- Galician Old Galician-Portuguese
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms with quotations
- roa-opt:Animals