canté
Appearance
Asturian
[edit]Verb
[edit]canté
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Attested since the 18th century. Cognate with rural northern Portuguese canté.
Interjection
[edit]canté
- (dated, idiomatic) certainly; you bet
- (dated, idiomatic) if only
- 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:
- Ahi vay esa esmoliña
p'rá à virxen à empregà
que che lla dou de boa mentes;
¡cantè quen poidera mais!- There it goes this little alms,
Apply it to the Virgin
because I give it to her willingly
If only I could give more!
- There it goes this little alms,
References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “canté”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “canté”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “canté”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Piedmontese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]canté
- to sing
Spanish
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[edit]Verb
[edit]canté
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- Galician terms with unknown etymologies
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- Galician interjections
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- Piedmontese terms inherited from Latin
- Piedmontese terms derived from Latin
- Piedmontese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Piedmontese lemmas
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- Spanish 2-syllable words
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