lechuza
Spanish
editEtymology
editThe Latin word was noctua (“owl”, literally “night bird”), which would have created Old Spanish *notua or *nochuza. Lechuza apparently resulted from a cross between Old Spanish *nochuza and leche (“milk”), due to the popular belief at the time that owls came at night to give babies milk.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Spain) /leˈt͡ʃuθa/ [leˈt͡ʃu.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /leˈt͡ʃusa/ [leˈt͡ʃu.sa]
Audio (Spain): (file) - Rhymes: -uθa
- Rhymes: -usa
- Syllabification: le‧chu‧za
Noun
editlechuza f (plural lechuzas)
Coordinate terms
editDerived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Brodsky, Spanish Vocabulary: An Etymological Approach
Further reading
edit- “lechuza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- lechuza on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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