yegua

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Aragonese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʝeɡwa/
  • Rhymes: -eɡwa
  • Syllabification: ye‧gua

Noun

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yegua f (plural yeguas)

  1. mare

References

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  • yegua”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
  • Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “yegua”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Fala

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish yegua, from Latin equa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈjeɡwa/
  • Rhymes: -eɡwa
  • Syllabification: ye‧gua

Noun

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yegua f (plural yeguas)

  1. (Mañegu, Valverdeñu) mare

References

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  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Spanish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • 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):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɡwa
  • Syllabification: ye‧gua

Noun

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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

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Jakaltek: yewaẍ
  • Oluta Popoluca: ye̱wa
  • Tetelcingo Nahuatl: yehualama
  • Tagalog: yegwa

See also

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Further reading

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