esteira

Galician

esteira f (plural esteiras)

mat made with straws, rushes, wickers or canes
Synonym: canizo
- 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 504:
  Et hũu ome bõo pobre doeusse muyto do corpo del rrey et tomoo en sogas et poseo en hũu leyto et cobrio de hũa esteyra uella et leuoo fora da vila et soterroo
  And a poor good man took pity of the king's body and took it with ropes and put it in a coffin and covered it with an old mat and took it outside the town and buried it
saddlebag
Synonym: esteirón

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “esteira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “esteyra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esteira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “esteira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “esteira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Spanish estera, ultimately from Latin storea. Doublet of estore, which was borrowed from the French cognate.

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈte(j).ɾɐ/ [isˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ], /esˈte(j).ɾɐ/ [esˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃˈte(j).ɾɐ/ [iʃˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ], /eʃˈte(j).ɾɐ/ [eʃˈte(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /esˈte(j).ɾa/ [esˈte(ɪ̯).ɾa]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃˈtɐj.ɾɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃˈtej.ɾɐ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃˈtej.ɾɐ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃˈte.ɾɐ/

esteira f (plural esteiras)