trasno
Appearance
Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Perhaps from Latin trānsgredior (“I cross over (fig., the law)”).[1] Cognate of Portuguese trasgo, Asturian trasgu, Spanish trasgo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]trasno m (plural trasnos)
- (Iberian folklore, mythology, fantasy) A mischievous mythological creature, usually domestic and similar to a goblin or brownie, other times more similar to a nightmare, found in the legends of the North and West of the Iberian peninsula
- a demon
- 1845, Vicente Turnes, Diálogo entre Silvestre Cajaraville e Domingo Magariños:
- Máis que digan que este mundo
Foi e será un bandallo,
Decote detras da porta
Non hemos de ver o trasno;- No matter how much they say that this world
was and is a calamity,
Not always are we to see
the demon behind the door
- No matter how much they say that this world
- (figurative) a roguish child
Derived terms
[edit]- trasnada (“mischief, trick”)
References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trasno”, 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), “trasno”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trasno”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tardo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trasgo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “trasgo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos