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)
- swallow (any bird of the Hirundinidae family)
- a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 54 (facsimile):
- […] como muda penas a andorỹa.
- […] just like the swallow moults its feathers.
Derived terms
- Anduriñas
Descendants
- Fala: anduriña
- Galician: anduriña, andolía, andulía, andoriña, andurinha, andorinha (reintegrationist)
- Portuguese: andorinha
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “andorỹa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega