zernillón

Aragonese

FWOTD – 13 November 2013

Alternative forms

• cernillón (Academia de l’ Aragonés spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θeɾniˈʎon/, (Benasquese) /seɾniˈʎon/
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: zer‧ni‧llón

Noun

zernillón m (plural zernillons)

1. the ridge of a roof
   • 2009, José María Satué Sanromán, Zien semanas de carasol aragonés, volume 4, Edacar, page 8:

     En que se remataba o tellau, yera costumbre fincar un foricón con un trapo y un ramo de buxo en a punta d’o zernillón, pa dar notorio a ras chens d’ixa nueva.

     While the roof was being finished, it was a custom to stick a large stick with a cloth and a branch of boxwood in the corner of the roof ridge, to communicate this news to the people.