liorna

See also: Liorna

Galician

Attested since the 18th century. Perhaps from Latin Liburnus (“Liborna”).^[1]

liorna f (plural liornas)

palaver
- 1858, Juan Manuel Pintos, Xacinto e Catriña:
  Non me veñas Xacinto con liornas / A que eu non lle dou creto, / Que esa labia éche o abouxo das bigornas
  Don't come to me with palavers, Xacinto, which I don't give credit; because this glibness of yours is the din of the anvils
gibberish, drivel, ramble
uproar, din
Synonyms: abouxo, barullo
quarrel
Synonym: liorta

Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “liorna”, 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, editor (2006–2013), “liornas”, 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, editor (2006–2013), “ligornia”, 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), “liorna”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “liorna”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “ligar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

From Liorna (“Livorno”), an Italian city.

liorna f (plural liornas)