muxe
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
Back-formation from the plural muxes, itself from the medieval mugees, from mugel, from Latin mūgil.
Pronunciation
Noun
muxe m (plural muxes)
- mullet
- 1417, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:
- Iten a libra dos corvelos et mugees et robalos et robaliças et reos et vesugos et douradas [...] a quatro dineiros cada libra
- Item, the pound of young pollacks and of mullets and of basses and of young basses and of sea trouts and of seabreams and of gilt-head breams [...], four diñeiros each pound
- Iten a libra dos corvelos et mugees et robalos et robaliças et reos et vesugos et douradas [...] a quatro dineiros cada libra
- 1417, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mugees”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “muxe”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Zapotec
Alternative forms
- ira' muxe
Noun
muxe
- male-bodied person who acts feminine and/or is homosexual
See also
References
- Larry P. Gross, James D. Woods, The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media →ISBN, 1999)