rexelo

Galician

Perhaps from Proto-Celtic *riskillos, from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”);^[1] but probably from Late Latin *rescellus, a diminutive of res, "thing", but which has come to mean "head of cattle" in western Iberia Romance languages.

rexelo m (plural rexelos)

kid, lamb
Synonyms: añagoto, año, cordeiro
- 1291, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Transcrición íntegra dos documentos, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:
  cen carros de pan entre trigo et centeo et vi armentios et iiii bois et ii uacas et La roxellos entre cabras et ouellas
  a hundred carts of grain, wheat and rye; and 6 cattle, 4 oxen and 2 cows; and 50 kids, sheep and goats
sheep or goat

Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “reixelo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “rexelo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
"rexelo" in Gallaeciae Monumenta Historica.
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rexelo”, 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), “rexelo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “roxelo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “frajenco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Perhaps from Proto-Celtic *riskillos, from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”);^[1] but probably from Late Latin *rescellus, a diminutive of res, "thing", but which has come to mean "head of cattle" in western Iberia Romance languages.

rexelo m (plural rexelos)

Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rexelo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “frajenco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[2] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos