denociña

Galician

Doniña or donicela ("least weasel")

Alternative forms

• delonciña, denunciña

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese donezỹa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria, where it is presented as a characteristically Galician word), from Vulgar Latin *domnicella (“weasel”), reanalyzed as *donic- + -ella, and them suffixed with -iña.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /denoˈθiɲa̝̝/, (western) /denoˈsiɲa̝̝/

Noun

denociña f (plural denociñas)

1. weasel (Least weasel)

   Synonyms: donicela, doniña

References

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