faísca

Galician

Bonfire Embers / faíscas

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese faisca, or the specifically Galician feysca, attested in (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  as falisca. From Proto-Germanic *falwiskǭ (“spark, ash over burning ambers”), from Proto-Germanic *falwaz (“fallow”) from Proto-Indo-European *polʷos. Cognate with Portuguese faísca and Asturian falisca. Compare also Old High German falawisca (“hot ashes”), Old Norse fǫlski (“ash over burning ambers”), and French flammèche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈiska̝/

Noun

faísca f (plural faíscas)

1. spark (detached from burning material)
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 209:

     et vio sayr ẽno ayre feyscas et moxenas da terra [asi] cõmo de forno que arde

     and he saw embers and sparks emerging from the land and going into the air, as from an burning oven

2. dandruff

Synonyms

• charamela, charamusca, moxena, muxica

References

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

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Portuguese

faíscas

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese faisca, feisca (attested in (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  as falisca), of uncertain origin. Possibly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *falwiskō(n), or from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *favillesca, from favilla (“embers”). Cognate with Galician faísca and Asturian falisca. Compare also Middle French falivoche, Old High German valwische, Old Italian falavesca, Old Norse fǫlski, Old Spanish fuisca and Swedish falaska.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɐ.ˈiʃ.kɐ/
• Hyphenation: fa‧ís‧ca

Noun

faísca f (plural faíscas)

1. spark

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:faísca