xema
Appearance
Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese gema (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin gemma. Cognate with Portuguese gema and Spanish yema.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]xema f (plural xemas)
- (botany) gemma, bud
- gem, gemstone
- Synonym: pedra preciosa
- rock salt
- Synonym: sal xema
- yolk (of an egg)
- 1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 172:
- Demais fazerll’ás beverage das gemas dos ovos e d’açafran e d’olio das violas, todo amasado ensembra con bõo viño branco
- Moreover you'll make him a beverage with egg yolks and saffron and viola oil, everything mixed together with good white wine
- pulp of the fingertip
- tail tip
References
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “gema”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “gema”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “xema”, 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), “xema”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “xema”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Old Tupi
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]xema
Categories:
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms inherited from Latin
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- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Galician/ema
- Rhymes:Galician/ema/2 syllables
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician feminine nouns
- gl:Botany
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- Old Tupi terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/ɛ̃ma
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/ɛ̃ma/2 syllables
- Old Tupi non-lemma forms
- Old Tupi noun forms