escaleira

Galician
Escaleiras, Bonaval, Santiago de Compostela (17-18th century)
Escaleiras, castro de Baroña (Iron Age)

Etymology

13th century. Adaptation from Spanish escalera, from Late Latin scalaria, from Latin scalae. Compare the doublet esqueira.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /eskaˈlejɾa̝/

Noun

escaleira f (plural escaleiras)

  1. (usually in the plural) stairway

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

Leonese

Etymology

Noun

escaleira f (plural escaleiras)

  1. ladder

References
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