Noun: nena
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | nena |
| Plural f | nenas |
Sample Sentences
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Item mando que den aa nena que mora en na casa duas trases et hun tornes et huna camisa et duas sauaas (Item, I order that they give to the girl that lives at the house two trases [?] and a solidus from Tours and a shirt and two sheets) [1403, M. M .Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500). Estudios Mindonienses, page 237]
Nouns inflected like nena
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese neno, nena (“young, tender”), from Vulgar Latin *ninnus, probably imitative of infantile language. Cognate with Spanish niña. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
neno', Spanish Nouns '
niña'.
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