xeira
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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From an older jeyra, geyra, from Medieval Latin diāria (“daily”), from Latin diēs (“day”). Cognate with Spanish jera.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]xeira f (plural xeiras)
- day's work
- Synonym: xornal
- work; task
- tiredness
- land which can be plowed in a day with a single pair of oxen
- 1451, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 133:
- Iten, un lugar en Raynros, que ten hua casa e hua cabadura de viña e dous ou tres geyras de tarreo de lebar pan
- Item, a hamlet in Raynros, which has a house and a vineyard and two or three xeiras of land suitable for growing cereals
- day's walk; journey; road
- time worked for a neighbour or for the community, in exchange for a future similar help
- series
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “xeira” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “xeira”, 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), “xeira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “xeira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “jera”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos