ligeyro

Old Galician-Portuguese

ligeyro m (plural ligeyros, feminine ligeyra, feminine plural ligeyras)

light (of low weight)
- 1481, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 177:
  Iten, preguntado por lo quarto artícolo, etc., diso o dito testigo que pode aver ben quarenta anos que él vira trajer touçiños do seruiçio da dita terra ao abade don Juan, os que eran ricos e tiñan gisado que tragían boos touçiños, e os que eran mays pobres, que lles tragían marraás boas, e outros mays pobres, que lle tragían outras marraás mays ligeyras
  Item, asked on the fourth article, etc, said witness said that some forty years ago he saw how they brought pigs of the service of said property to abbot Don Xoán; the ones who were rich and had a way brought good pigs, and the others who were poorer brought good sows, and others even poorer brought other lighter sows
fast, swift
- 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 379:
  Mays Diomedes, que era moy bõo et moy lygeyro, ergeusse moy toste, cõ sua espada ẽna mão, et defendeusse moy ben
  But Diomedes, who was very good and very swift, got up very quickly, with sword in hand, and defended himself very well

Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2024) “ligeyro”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: UDC, →ISSN
Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “l@ge@ro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ligeyro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG