Noun: esquina
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | esquina |
| Plural f | esquinas |
Sample Sentences
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estando y Martín Peres de Trella fasendo hua parede á esquina da parede de hua sua casa (Being there Martin Perez de Trella, who was building a wall next to the corner of the wall of a house that belongs to him) [1432, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 89:]
Nouns inflected like esquina
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 esquina (attested in the Galician Cantigas de Santa Maria c. 1264) perhaps from Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌽𐌰 (*skina), from Proto-Germanic *skinō (“rim, plate”). Cognate with French échine (“spine of an animal”) and English shin. See: French Nouns '
échine', English Nouns '
shin'.
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