ameneiro
Galician edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Old Galician-Portuguese ameneyro (attested since 1457), from a substrate language's *amenno ("alder") + -eiro, a suffix which forms tree names; compare the related terms amieiro. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ameneiro m (plural ameneiros)
- black alder tree (Alnus glutinosa)
- black alder wood
Usage notes edit
Abeneiro or ameneiro is the usual name of the black alder in northwestern Galicia, while amieiro is the usual name in the south and the east.
References edit
- “ameneyro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “ameneiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “ameneiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “amieiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.