Noun: alfalfez
Gender: m
Sample Sentences
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E sepas que el alfalfez estercuela e engrasa el campo o la tierra. [c. 1380–1385, Ferrer Sayol, transl., Libro de Palladio, translation of Opus agriculturae by Palladius, page 130r:]
Nouns inflected like alfalfez
sennor,
sastre,
estrellero,
arçobispado,
guarnimiento,
bezahar,
bezerro,
ysmael,
lenguage,
ivierno,
culuebro,
peligro,
culantro,
sacerdot,
mercader,
zebech,
blancor,
palafre,
ponient,
poderio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *HéHḱus
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos
4. Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háćwas
5. Proto-Iranian *Hácwah
6. Proto-Iranian *Hástiš
7. Proto-Iranian *HacwaHastiš
8. Old Median *aspāstišder.
9. Arabic فَصْفَص (faṣfaṣ)bor.
10. Old Spanish alfalfez
11. Borrowed from Arabic الْفَصْفَصَة (al-faṣfaṣa).
Verbs referencing "alfalfez"
English Nouns
alfalfa, Old Portuguese Nouns
alfalfa, Spanish Nouns
alfalfa.
Translations