morriña

Galician

FWOTD – 10 October 2012

Etymology

Unknown. Cognate of Portuguese morrinha and English murrain.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /moˈriɲa/
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): /muˈriɲa/

Noun

morriña f (plural morriñas)

1. longing; nostalgia; homesickness
   • (1986), Luís Caparrós Esperante, O Tempo como Castigo na Lírica de Rosalía in Actas do Congresso Internacional de estudios sobre Rosalía de Castro e o seu tempo, Consello da Cultura Galega, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 158:

     A morriña de Galicia confúndese coa morriña do pasado; a morriña do emigrante aseméllase á morriña polos bos tempos idos.

     The longing for Galicia is confused with the longing for the past; the emigrant’s longing is similar to the longing for good times gone by.

2. murrain
3. grime

   Synonyms: cotra, lorda

Derived terms

• morriñento

References

• “morriña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “morriña” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “morriña” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Galician morriña, ultimately from a form of Latin mori (“to die”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moˈriɲa/ [moˈri.ɲa]
• Rhymes: -iɲa
• Syllabification: mo‧rri‧ña

Noun

morriña f (uncountable)

1. (pathology, veterinary medicine) murrain

   Synonyms: comalia, hidropesía, zangarriana

2. (colloquial) homesickness, nostalgia

   Synonyms: añoranza, melancolía, musepo, nostalgia

Further reading

• “morriña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014