feuncho

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• fuuncho

Etymology

From an older unattested form *fẽollo (cf. Feolleda, a place name), from Latin fēnuculum (“fennel”), a diminutive of Latin fēnum (“hay”). First attested in the 15th century.

Noun

feuncho m (plural feunchos)

1. fennel
   • 1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 169:

     dálle a beber agoa caente con viño e con semente de feuncho en boa cantidade

     make him drink hot water with wine and with a good amount of fennel seeds

   • 1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 175:

     filla tres dramas de cravos girofes e tres onças de galingal e outro tanto de cardomomo e outro tanto de gengivre e outro tanto d’alcoravina e outro tanto de canela, e a semente do fuuncho en maior contia destas todas.

     take three drachmas of clove, and three ounces of galangal, and as much of cardamom, and as much of ginger, and as much of caraway, and as much of cinnamon, and seeds of fennel in the largest amount of them all

Descendants

• Galician: fiúncho
• Portuguese: funcho

References

• “feuncho” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.