Noun: xinoyu
Gender: m
Hyphenation: xi‧no‧yu
| Singular m | xinoyu |
| Plural m | xinoyos |
Sample Sentences
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De xinoyos á les dames. [1707, Francisco Bernaldo de Quirós, El Caballu:]
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y afincándose de xinoyos adoráronlu [...] y afincándose de xinoyos delantre d’ elli, díxoi: A Señor, teni llástima del mió fiu [...] Y afincando ’l un xinoyu nel suelu, ensandecínlu [1861, José Sánchez de Santa María, Evanxeliu según San Mateo:]
Nouns inflected like xinoyu
miligramu,
secañu,
sentíu,
cristianu,
sabugu,
cunqueiru,
solanu,
sobacu,
sofitu,
siluru,
sieglu,
comerciu,
xuiciu,
xunetu,
xunicu,
xunucu,
deterioru,
xoyeru,
comienzu,
xilecu, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old Leonese ginollo from Late Latin genuculum, alteration of Latin geniculum, diminutive of genū (“knee”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu. See Catalan genoll, Portuguese joelho, Mirandese zinolho, Galician xeonllo and Occitan genolh.
2. Displaced by rodiya, borrowing from Spanish rodilla, it's found only in old dictionaries and texts (Junquera Huergo, Julio Somoza and Antonio García Oliveros) but not nowadays, as such it doesn't appear on the modern Diccionariu de la Llingua Asturiana. See: Latin Nouns '
geniculum', Catalan Nouns '
genoll', Portuguese Nouns '
joelho', Galician Nouns '
xeonllo', Spanish Nouns '
rodilla'.
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