pestaña
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See also: pestana
Asturian[edit]
Noun[edit]
pestaña f (plural pestañes)
Synonyms[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Spanish pestaña (“eyelash and eyebrow area; eyelash”), cognate with Portuguese pestana (“eyelash”), Catalan pestanya (“eyelash”) and Gascon Occitan pestane, from Vulgar Latin *pistanna, and related to Basque pizta (“rheum, eye sleep”) and piztule (“pestaña”).
Coromines and Pascual conjecture that the Vulgar Latin term is perhaps from an uncertain Indo-European language, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pstḗn (“teat, nipple”), as an extension in the sense of something that hangs from the body.
Noun[edit]
pestaña f (plural pestañas)
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN