estaca – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of estaca

Noun: estaca
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular festaca
Plural festacas

Sample Sentences

  • herdade do Amenal, conmo jaz entre estacas et regos (property of the Alderwood, in the way that it is limited in between stakes and ditches) [1315, Manuel Lucas Álvarez, editor, Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 34:]
  • que nenghum seja ousado de amarrar nauio algund a a Ponte desta dita billa nen meter estaqas en ela (nobody should dare to moor any ship to the bridge of this town, not to insert stakes in it) [1432, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 69]

Etymology

1. Attested circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from unattested Medieval Latin *stacca, probably from Gothic *𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌺𐌰 (*staka), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-.
2. Cognate with Portuguese estaca, Spanish estaca, Catalan estaca, Occitan estaca, Old French estaque and English stake. See: Portuguese Nouns 'estaca', Spanish Nouns 'estaca', Catalan Nouns 'estaca', English Nouns 'stake'.

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