agua bẽeyta

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• agoa bẽeyta

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin aqua benedicta. Piecewise doublet of agua bendita.

Noun

agua bẽeyta f (plural agua bẽeytas)

1. (Christianity) holy water
   • 1295, anonymous author, [Crónica Xeral e Crónica de Castela]; republished as chapter 1, in Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: Instituto de Estudios Oresanos, 1975, page 814:

     Mays esse bispo dõ Iohan, cõ os outros bispos sobredictos, deyta[d]a fora a suzidade de Mafomad, (et) çercarõ arredor toda aquella mesquita, espargẽdo agoa bẽeyta per ella com̃o deujã […]

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Descendants

• Galician: auga bieita
• Portuguese: água benta

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “agua beeyta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega