eira

See also: -eira and Eira

Galician

Eira da Ermida: a group of garners built by an old threshing floor

Alternative forms

• aira

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈejɾa̝/

Etymology

From Latin ārea (“threshing floor, open space”). Cognate with Portuguese eira, Spanish era, Catalan era, Occitan ièra, French aire, Italian aia and Romanian arie. Doublet of área, borrowed from the same Latin word.

Noun

eira f (plural eiras)

1. threshing floor (a yard, usually paved, used as a clean and even surface for threshing cereals)

Derived terms

• Aira
• Aira Vella
• Airado
• Airas
• Airavedra
• Airavella
• Airoa
• Eira Pedriña
• Eira Vella
• eirada
• eirado
• Eirado
• Eiravedra
• eiroa
• Eiró
• Eiroa
• Eiroá

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• “eira” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “eira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Guaraní

Noun

eira

1. wild cat

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Portuguese

eira

eira (Eira barbara)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈej.ɾa/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɐj.ɾɐ/

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese eira (“threshing floor”), from Latin ārea (“threshing floor, open space”). Cognate to Galician eira, Spanish era, Catalan era, Occitan ièra, French aire, Italian aia and Romanian arie. Doublet of área, borrowed from the same Latin word.

Noun

eira f (plural s)

1. threshing floor

Synonyms

• malhadouro

Derived terms

• sem eira nem beira

Related terms

• área, eirado

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Guaraní eira.

Noun

eira f (plural s)

1. tayra (Eira barbara)

Synonyms

• irara, papa-mel

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Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *ėrɣ (“snow”) (compare Cornish ergh, Breton erc’h).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈei̯ra/

Noun

eira m (uncountable)

1. snow

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
eira	unchanged	unchanged	heira
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.