yegua

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin equa, feminine form of equus (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”). Compare Catalan euga, Spanish yegua, Galician egua, Portuguese égua, Romanian iapă.

Noun

yegua f (plural yeguas)

1. mare

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “yegua”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish yegua, from Latin equa, feminine form of equus (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝeɡwa/, [ˈɟ͡ʝe.ɣ̞wa]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝeɡwa/, [ˈɟ͡ʝe.ɣ̞wa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃeɡwa/, [ˈʃe.ɣ̞wa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒeɡwa/, [ˈʒe.ɣ̞wa]

Audio (Colombia)

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Noun

yegua f (plural yeguas, masculine caballo, masculine plural caballos)

1. mare
2. heifer
3. (informal) a contemptible fat woman
4. the letter Y in the Spanish spelling alphabet

Descendants

• → Jakaltek: yewaẍ
• → Oluta Popoluca: ye̱wa
• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: yehualama

See also

• caballo

Further reading

• “yegua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014