Galician

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin saliva. Displaced by saíva and the borrowed saliva, probably because of seiva (sap). For another possibly inherited example, see Italian scialiva.

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Noun

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seiva f (plural seivas)

  1. (dated) saliva
    Synonyms: cuspe, saliva
    • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 143:
      o que mays forte he de todos estos he o poo do rrosalgar amasado con seiua d'ome
      the strongest of them all is realgar power mixed with human saliva
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French sève and probably influenced by its homophone.

Noun

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seiva f (plural seivas)

  1. sap
Descendants
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  • Spanish: savia (or from Portuguese)

Etymology 3

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Verb

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seiva

  1. inflection of seivar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

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  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “seiva”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • seiva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • seiva” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • seiva” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Icelandic

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English save.

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Verb

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seiva (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative seivaði, supine seivað)

  1. (computing, informal) to save
    Synonym: vista

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Portuguese

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsej.vɐ/ [ˈseɪ̯.vɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsej.va/ [ˈseɪ̯.va]
 

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin salīva.

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Noun

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seiva f (plural seivas)

  1. (Northern Portugal) saliva

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French sève and perhaps influenced by its homophone.

Noun

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seiva f (plural seivas)

  1. sap (circulating fluid of plants)
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Spanish: savia (or from Galician)

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