lobishome
Galician
editEtymology
edit11th century ("Lubusome", inside a Latin text).[1] From lubus (“wolf”) + home (“man”), perhaps a calque of Germanic: compare Proto-West Germanic *werawulf. Cognate of Portuguese lobisomem.[2]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlobishome m (plural lobishomes)
- (folklore) a werewolf
- Synonyms: lobo da xente, licántropo
- 1279, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 37:
- pelos casares do Outeyro e pela fonte do Lubus ome
- by the houses of Outeiro and by the fountain of the werewolf
References
edit- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lubus ome”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lobishome”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lobishome”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- ^ "Lubusome" in Gallaeciae Monumenta Historica.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “lobo I”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos