leñame

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leˈɲame/ [leˈɲa.me]
• Rhymes: -ame
• Syllabification: le‧ña‧me

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian legname or Old Catalan lenyam (modern llenyam); either way from Early Medieval Latin lignāmen.

Noun

leñame m (plural leñames)

1. wood; timber

Etymology 2

Verb

leñame

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of leñar combined with me

References

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “leña”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 631

Further reading

• “leñame”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014