quenda

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Nyunga gwernda.

Noun

quenda (plural quendas)

1. A short-nosed bandicoot found mostly in southern Australia, Isoodon obesulus.

Synonyms

• southern brown bandicoot

References

Quendas, WA CALM

Anagrams

• en quad

Galician

Etymology

15th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese caenda (13th century, attested in Old Galician documents), from Latin kalendae, the first day of the month. Doublet of calendas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛnda̝/

Noun

quenda f (plural quendas)

1. turn (a chance to do or to use something in sequence with others)

   Synonyms: rolda, veceira, xeira

2. (archaic, in the plural) calends

   Synonym: calendas

   • 1433, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 20:

     todos ordenaron et feseron seu procurador en todo este dito ano, ata dia de quendas janeyras a Meen Suares Galinato

     Everyone ordered and made their proxy, for the whole year till the first say of January, Meen Suares Galinato

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “quendas”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “caendas”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “quenda”, 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), “quenda”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “quenda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN