alumẽar

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See also: alumear

Old Galician-Portuguese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin allūminō.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

alumẽar

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to illuminate, clarify
    • 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 4:
      O quarto dia alumeou os çeos et a terra cõ o sol, et cõ a lũa, et com as estrellas; et posoas ẽno firmamento: o sol por lo dia, et a lũa et as estrellas pera anoyte
      the fourth day He illuminated the skies and the earth with the sun, and with the moon, and with the stars; and He put them in the firmament: the sun during the day, the moon and the stars at nighttime

Conjugation[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Galician: alumar, alumear
  • Portuguese: alumiar

Further reading[edit]

  • Universo Cantigas - "alumeado"
  • alumear” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • alume” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.