mexillón
Galician
Etymology
From Iberian Vulgar Latin *musceliō (“mussel”), from Latin muscellus, from Latin musculus (“muscle, mussel”). Cognate of Portuguese mexilhão and of Spanish mejillón (“mussel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meʃiˈʎoŋ/, /miʃiˈʎoŋ/
Noun
mexillón m (plural mexillóns)
- mussel (shellfish)
- 1328, Cesar Vaamonde Lores (ed.), Documentos Históricos. A Coruña: RAG, vol III, page 55, note 1:
- a miña casa do campo que he ena rua que chaman de Don Felipe e o canto da rua donde venden os mixilloes
- my house in the concourse in the street which they call of Don Felipe, by the side of the street where they sell the mussels
- a miña casa do campo que he ena rua que chaman de Don Felipe e o canto da rua donde venden os mixilloes
- 1328, Cesar Vaamonde Lores (ed.), Documentos Históricos. A Coruña: RAG, vol III, page 55, note 1:
References
- “mexillon” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. mejillón.
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