xeira
Galician
Etymology
From an older jeyra, geyra, from Medieval Latin diāria (“daily”), from Latin diēs (“day”). Cognate with Spanish jera.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
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 (ed.), 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
- Iten, un lugar en Raynros, que ten hua casa e hua cabadura de viña e dous ou tres geyras de tarreo de lebar pan
- 1451, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 133:
- day's walk; journey; road
- time worked for a neighbour or for the community, in exchange for a future similar help
- series
Related terms
References
- “xeira” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
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- 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