Reconstruction:Old Galician-Portuguese/longueĩça

This Old Galician-Portuguese entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin lūcānica, from lūcānicus, from Lūcānia + -icus.

Cognate with Old Spanish longaniza.

Noun

*longueĩça f (plural *longueĩças)

1. sausage

Descendants

• Galician: longaínza
• Portuguese: linguiça
  • → English: linguica

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “longaniza”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos