xesta
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese gẽesta, from Latin genesta (“broom”). Cognate with Portuguese gesta and Spanish hiniesta.
Pronunciation
Noun
xesta f (plural xestas)
- broom (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- 1408, José Luis Novo Cazón (ed.), El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500). A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 318:
- que façades a dicta metade da dicta casa de pedra e de madeyra e de giestas e de colmo
- you should build that half house with stone and wood and brooms and thatch
- que façades a dicta metade da dicta casa de pedra e de madeyra e de giestas e de colmo
- 1408, José Luis Novo Cazón (ed.), El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500). A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 318:
- broom (tool)
Derived terms
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “giest”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “geest”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “xesta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN