laxa
Galician

Laxa or laxe with ancient petroglyphs
Etymology
From the medieval form lagea, previously documented in local Medieval Latin as lagena; from a substrate language; probably from Proto-Celtic *laginā (“blade”). Confer Welsh llain (“blade, sword, spear”) and Old Irish láige (“mattock, spade; broad spearhead”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlaʃa̝/
Derived terms
- Laxa
- Laxas
Descendants
- → Spanish: laja
References
- “lagia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “laja” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “laxa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “laxa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “laxa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. laja.
- Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 61
Ido
Antonyms
Latin
References
- laxa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Spanish
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