reiseñor

Galician

Reiseñor or rousinol

Alternative forms

• rousinol
• reissenhor, roussinol, rouxinol (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ruissennor (14th century, Alfonso Álvarez de Villasandino), borrowed from Old Occitan rossinhol, from Vulgar Latin *lusciniolus, diminutive of Classical Latin luscinia (“nightingale”). Cognate with Portuguese rouxinol and Spanish ruiseñor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rejseˈɲoɾ/ [rej.s̺eˈɲoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Hyphenation: rei‧se‧ñor

Noun

reiseñor m (plural reiseñores)

1. nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)
   • 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega:

     un sinfín de paxaros ben cantores
     reiseñores o xílgaro e o sirín

     an endless number of singing birds:
     nightingales, the goldfinch and the serin

References

• “ruissennor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “reiseñor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “reiseñor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “reiseñor” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “rousinol” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.