bexiga
Mezquital Otomi edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from early modern Spanish vexiga (“bladder; blister; balloon”, now vejiga), from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
béxíga
References edit
- Hernández Cruz, Luis, Victoria Torquemada, Moisés (2010) Diccionario del hñähñu (otomí) del Valle del Mezquital, estado de Hidalgo (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 45)[1] (in Spanish), second edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 12
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin vessīca, variant of vēsīca. Presumably came via a northern dialect or Galician on account of the /b-/. Compare Galician vexiga, Spanish vejiga. Doublet of vesico-, a borrowing from Latin.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: be‧xi‧ga
Noun edit
bexiga f (plural bexigas)