reiseñor

Galician

Reiseñor or rousinol

Alternative forms

• rousinol
• reissenhor, roussinol, rouxinol (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ruissennor (14th century, Alfonso Álvarez de Villasandino), borrowed from Old Occitan rossinhol, from Vulgar Latin *lusciniolus, diminutive of Classical Latin luscinia (“nightingale”). Cognate with Portuguese rouxinol and Spanish ruiseñor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rejseˈɲoɾ/ [rej.s̺eˈɲoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Hyphenation: rei‧se‧ñor

Noun

reiseñor m (plural reiseñores)

1. nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)
   • 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega:

     un sinfín de paxaros ben cantores
     reiseñores o xílgaro e o sirín

     an endless number of singing birds:
     nightingales, the goldfinch and the serin

References

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