Noun: xeira
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | xeira |
| Plural f | xeiras |
Sample Sentences
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xeiras grandes e pobeas raras levan donos á terras estrañas (long working days and few gavels take the owner to strange lands)
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Iten, un lugar en Raynros, que ten hua casa e hua cabadura de viña e dous ou tres geyras de tarreo de lebar pan (Item, a hamlet in Raynros, which has a house and a vineyard and two or three xeiras of land suitable for growing cereals) [1451, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 133:]
Nouns inflected like xeira
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 an older Old Galician-Portuguese jeyra, geyra, from Medieval Latin diāria (“daily”), from Latin diēs (“day”). Cognate with dialectal Portuguese jeira and Asturian xera. See: Latin Nouns '
diēs', Asturian Nouns '
xera'.
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