anguía

Galician
A trap (nasa) for catching eels

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese anguia (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin anguilla. Cognate with Spanish enguia and Spanish anguila.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /aŋˈɡi.a̝/

Noun

anguía f (plural anguías)

  1. eel, especially the European eel
    • 1391, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, vol. 3, page 420:
      cada natal nos daredes das ditas erdades quinse duseas de boas anguias secas et salgadas
      each Christmas you'll give us, of that properties, fifteen dozens of good eels, dry and salted
    Synonym: airoa

References
  • “anguia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “anguia” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “anguía” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “anguía” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “anguía” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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