meniño

See also: menino and Meniño

Galician
Meniños

Alternative forms
  • miniño

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese menỹo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) of uncertain origin: maybe from Latin minimus, or either from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small”) (compare Middle Irish menn (“kid”), Middle Breton menn (“young goat”), Middle Welsh myn (“kid”), from Proto-Celtic *menno-)[1]. Cognate with Portuguese menino.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /meˈniɲo̝/

Noun

meniño m (plural meniños, feminine meniña, feminine plural meniñas)

  1. infant
    Synonym: cativo
  2. little finger
  • Meniño (a surname)
  • meniñeiro

References
  • “menino” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “menin” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “meniño” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “meniño” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 266
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