amieiro

Galician

Etymology

From older ameeyro, from a substrate language's *ameno ("alder") + -eiro, a suffix which forms tree names; compare the related terms Amial from Amenālem and Amedo from Amenētum. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /amiˈejɾo̝/

Noun

amieiro m (plural amieiros)

  1. black alder tree (Alnus glutinosa)
    Synonyms: abeneiro, ameneiro

Usage notes

Abeneiro or ameneiro is the usual name of the black alder in northwestern Galicia, while amieiro is the usual name in the south and the east.

  • A Meda
  • Ameal
  • Amedo
  • Amendo
  • Amial
  • Amieira

References
  • “ameeyr” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “amieyr” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “amieiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “amieiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “amieiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Bascuas, Edelmiro (2002). Estudios de hidronimia paleoeuropea gallega. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade, Servicio de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico. p. 257-259. →ISBN.

Portuguese
amieiro (Alnus glutinosa)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese *amẽeiro, from Vulgar Latin *amoenarium.

Pronunciation
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.ˈmjɐj.ɾu/, /ɐ.ˈmjej.ɾu/
  • Hyphenation: a‧mi‧ei‧ro

Noun

amieiro m (plural amieiros)

  1. alder (any tree or shrub of the genus Alnus)
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