tanyer

See also: tányér

Ladino

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish tanner (to play), from Latin tangere, from Proto-Italic *tangō, nasal infix present from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-.

Verb

tanyer

  1. (music, transitive) to play
    • 2013, Myriam Moscona, Jacobo Sefamí with Martín Fierro, José Hernández, Por mi boka: Textos de la diáspora sefardí en ladino[1], Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, →ISBN, page 222:
      Aki me meto a kantar yo
      al tanyer de la gitara,
      kualo al ombre ke lo apanya
      un penserio ingradesido,
      bilbiliko solitario
      kon el dizir se konsola.
      Here I get involved in singing
      by playing the guitar,
      which in the man holding it
      [there's] a growing concern;
      lonely little kid
      who consoles himself by speaking.