maniño

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Galician

Etymology

From a local Latin *manninus; from mannus (pony), or from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 159: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value qfa-sub-ibe is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. *mandu "young animal"; from Celtic (confer Old Irish menn, Welsh myn).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Adjective

maniño m (plural maniños, feminine maniña, feminine plural maniñas)

  1. childless
  2. sterile
    • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 269:
      Et avia estonçes Rrebeca [vijnte] ãnos, et por que ella estoue despoys que forõ casados outros vijnte ãnos que nõ ouvo fillo, coydaua Ysaac et os outros queo sabiam que sayria manyña et que nõ averia fillo et que ficaria el sem fillo herdeyro.
      And Rebeca was twenty years old, and since she was childless for another twenty years after marrying, Ysaac and others who knew thought that she was infertile and that she would have no children, and that he would be left without an heir
  3. infertile, barren
    • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 209:
      nẽgũa cousa do mũdo que viuese, nẽ viua fosse, nẽ peyxe, nẽ ave, nẽ al, nõse cria, nẽse pode aly criar, et esto por duas rrazões: aprimeyra por la terra quee queymada et morta, asegunda por la agoa quee manyna et caẽte, et fede
      nothing in the world that is or was alive, fish, bird, nothing, grow or can be raised there [Dead Sea]; and this is because of two reasons: the first, because the earth is burnt and dead, and the second, because the water is infertile and warm, and stinks

References

  1. ^ Template:R:DCECH
  2. ^ Confer "*mundu-" in Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University.