bordear

Galician

Etymology

15th century. From bordo (“border”) +‎ -ear, or directly from Old French border; ultimately from Proto-Germanic *burdą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boɾðeˈaɾ/

Verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) to border, to flak, to skirt (to lie on, or adjacent to a border)
   • 1447, M. del Carmen Sánchez Carrera (ed.), El Bajo Miño en el siglo XV. El espacio y los hombres. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 327:

     Item mays o pardinneiro que esta enna testeira da vinna onde esta a figueira bordiando et outro meo pardinneiro que esta na testeira [da] dita vinna con a carvalla que esta iunto con o dito meo pardinneiro.

     Item, the ruins that are in the extreme of the vineyard where there is a bordering fig tree, and another half of a ruined building that is at the extreme of the aforementioned vineyard with the oak that is next to it.

   Synonyms: abeirar, flanquear

2. to skirt (to move around or along the border)

   Synonym: flanquear

3. to hug the coastline

   Synonym: costear

Related terms

• borda
• bordar
• bordo

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “bordia”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bordear”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boɾdeˈaɾ/ [boɾ.ð̞eˈaɾ]

Verb

1. to border