moxena
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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Perhaps from a substrate language.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]moxena f (plural moxenas)
- spark (detached from burning material)
- Synonyms: charamusca, faísca, muxa, muxica
- c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, 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
References
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “moxena”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “moxena”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “moxena”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “moxena”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Cf. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “morcella”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos