yegua
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Aragonese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
yegua f (plural yeguas)
References[edit]
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “yegua”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Spanish yegua, from Latin equa, feminine form of equus (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Colombia) | (file) |
Noun[edit]
yegua f (plural yeguas, masculine caballo, masculine plural caballos)
- mare
- heifer
- (informal) a contemptible fat woman
- the letter Y in the Spanish spelling alphabet
Descendants[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “yegua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Aragonese terms inherited from Latin
- Aragonese terms derived from Latin
- Aragonese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Aragonese lemmas
- Aragonese nouns
- Aragonese feminine nouns
- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio links
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish informal terms
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