de seu

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Galician

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Etymology

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Attested since 1370: de (of) and seu (his/her/its).

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

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de seu

  1. on one's own; by oneself
    • 1876, O Tío Marcos, I, 11:
      Din alí que o conto é darlle comenzo a unha cousa, que dempois camiña de seu;
      They say that the gist is beginning something, because later it will go by itself;
  2. having whole ownership
    O mozo xa ten coche de seuThe young man already owns a car (by himself, alone)

References

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Old Galician-Portuguese

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Prepositional phrase

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de seu

  1. (Galicia) on one's own; by oneself
    • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 735:
      Et sabede que nõ ouuerõ mester ayos, ca todo(s) aprendíã moy bẽ de seu, quanto lles cõvĩjna.
      And you must know that they didn't need tutors, because all of them learned very well by themselves everything that suited them

Descendants

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  • Galician: de seu

References

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  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “de seu”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG