lobishome
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Galician
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Etymology
[edit]11th century ("Lubusome", inside a Latin text).[1] From lubus (“wolf”) + home (“man”), perhaps a calque of Germanic: compare Proto-West Germanic *werawulf. Cognate of Portuguese lobisomem.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lobishome m (plural lobishomes)
- (folklore) a werewolf
- Synonyms: lobo da xente, licántropo
- 1279, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 37:
- pelos casares do Outeyro e pela fonte do Lubus ome
- by the houses of Outeiro and by the fountain of the werewolf
References
[edit]- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lubus ome”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- “lobishome” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “lobishome” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- ^ "Lubusome" in Gallaeciae Monumenta Historica.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “lobo I”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos