afazemento

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• afazimento, affazimento (Portugal)

Etymology

From afazer (“to accustom”) +‎ -mento.

Noun

afazemento m (plural afazementos)

1. (Galicia) acquaintance, relation; intimacy
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, page 20:

     et Noe et seus fillos et suas molleres nũca ouverõ afazemẽto [njhũ] cõ os de Caym

     and Noah and his sons and their wives never had any kind of relation with Cain's

Related terms

• afazer
• fazenda
• fazer

 

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “afazemento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “afazemento”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG