Galician

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Attested till the 16th century. From Latin heres (heir).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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heree m (plural herees)

  1. (archaic) heir
    Synonym: herdeiro
    • 1407, A. Fernández Salgado, editor, A documentación medieval de San Bieito do Campo, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 55:
      Jten faço por mjña heree vnjversal en todos meus bẽes móueles e rraýzes a mjña filla Catalyna, que ey da dita mjña moller Costança Peres
      Item, I make my universal heir, in all of my goods, real and personal, my daughter Catalina, who I have of my wife Constanza Pérez
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References

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  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (20062022) “heree”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “eree”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • heree” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.