andorỹa

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin root *harundina, from hirundina-, from Latin hirundō, hirundine; cf. also harundō, which may have influenced it.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /an.do.ˈɾĩ.a/, (late) /an.do.ˈɾi.ɲa/

Noun

andorỹa f (plural andorỹas)

  1. swallow (any bird of the Hirundinidae family)

Derived terms

  • Anduriñas

Descendants

  • Fala: anduriña
  • Galician: anduriña, andolía, andulía, andoriña, andurinha, andorinha (reintegrationist)
  • Portuguese: andorinha

References

  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “andorỹa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega