sequeiro

Galician
Sequeiros for chestnuts

Etymology

From seco (“dry”) +‎ -eiro.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /seˈkejɾo̝/

Noun

sequeiro m (plural sequeiros)

  1. a room or installation used for drying wood or nuts
    • 1438, Manuel Lucas Álvarez & Pedro Lucas Domínguez (eds.), El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media. Sada: Ediciós do Castro, page 226:
      que vos aforamos o nosso lugar de Souto do Rego [...] con tal condiçon que façades hy hun sequeyro e que o tenades cuberto e ben reparado
      we loan to you our place named Souto do Rego (Chestnut wood by the stream) [...] on the condition that you should build a dryer there, and you should keep it repaired and roofed
  2. a dry terrain

References
  • “sequeyr” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “sequeiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “sequeiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “sequeiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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