lechía
Appearance
See also: Lechia
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Hokkien 荔枝 (lē-chi) + -a. See also Portuguese lichia.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lechía f (plural lechías)
- (obsolete) lychee (tree)
- 1891, Imprenta del Real Colegio de Santo Tomás, El Correo sino-annamita ó correspondencia de las misiones del sagrado órden de predicadores en Formosa, China, Tung-King y Filipinas:
- En nuestro Vicariato Central, y en la parte de la provincia Son-Tày que pertenece al Septentrional, hay abundancia del dimocarpus lichi ó lechías grandes. De las lechías grandes hay tres ó cuatro especies, unas ordinarias, otras cuya pepita es muy pequeña y tienen mucha carne; de esta especie es de la que en la cosecha ofrecen al Rey, es muy estimada.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (obsolete) lychee (fruit)
Synonyms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Tagalog: litsiyas
Further reading
[edit]- Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 38
- Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum[1] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642, page 79 / 282 [Print], 304 [PDF]; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum[2], Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN
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- es:Trees
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