ameneyro

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From a substrate language's *amenno ("alder") + -eiro, a suffix which forms tree names; compare the related terms ameeyro. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ameˈnejɾo/

Noun

ameneyro m (plural ameneyros)

1. (Galicia) black alder tree (Alnus glutinosa)

   Synonym: ameeyro

   • 1457, Fernando Tato Plaza, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos:

     Jtem diso que oýra deser que avía Sã Justo ẽno agro d'Ovele, arredor del, hũa deuesa d'ameneyros, arredor do agro

     Item, he said that he had heard say that [the monastery of] Saint Justus had in the field of Ovelle, around it, a copse of black alders, around the field

Descendants

• Galician: ameneiro

References

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