ameneiro

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Galician[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Old Galician-Portuguese ameneyro (attested since 1457), from a substrate language's *amenno ("alder") + -eiro, a suffix which forms tree names; compare the related terms amieiro. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ameneiro m (plural ameneiros)

  1. black alder tree (Alnus glutinosa)
    Synonyms: abeneiro, amieiro
  2. black alder wood

Usage notes[edit]

Abeneiro or ameneiro is the usual name of the black alder in northwestern Galicia, while amieiro is the usual name in the south and the east.

References[edit]

  • “ameneyro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “ameneiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “ameneiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “amieiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Bascuas, Edelmiro (2002). Estudios de hidronimia paleoeuropea gallega. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade, Servicio de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico. p. 257-259. →ISBN.
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