muíño de vento

Galician

Windmill in A Coruña

Wind turbines in the North Sea off the coast of Belgium

Alternative forms

• muinho de vento (reintegrationist)
• moinho de vento (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Muíño (“mill”) + de (“of”) + vento (“wind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muˈiɲoðeˈβɛnto̝/

Noun

muíño de vento m (plural muíños de vento)

1. windmill
2. wind turbine, wind generator (device)

   Synonyms: muíño eólico, aeroxerador

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “muíño”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega