miuca

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Old Galician-Portuguese

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Miuca

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Etymology

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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

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miuca f (plural miucas)

  1. (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

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