ameixa

• amexia (Mañegu)

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *damascina, from Latin damascēna (prūna) (“Damascene plums”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈmei̯ʃa/

ameixa f (plural ameixas)

1. (Mañegu) plum (fruit)

   Synonyms: abruñu (Valverdeñu), agruñu (Lagarteiru, Mañegu), ciruela (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu)

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /aˈmejʃa/ [aˈmej.ʃɐ]
• Rhymes: -ejʃa

From Old Galician-Portuguese (independently attested in both corpora), from Vulgar Latin *damascina, from Latin damascēna (prūna) n pl (“Damascene plums”), with a loss of initial 'd'.[1] Cognate with English damson and damascene. Possibly indirectly influenced by Etymology 2.

ameixa f (plural ameixas)

1. plum (fruit)

   Synonyms: abruño, cirola, fatón

Unknown. Akin to Portuguese amêijoa, Asturian amasuela and Spanish almeja.[2]

Ameixas

ameixa f (plural ameixas)

1. clam

• “ameixa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “ameyxe” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “ameixa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “ameixa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “ameixa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *damascĭna-, for Latin damascēna (prūna) ("plums from Damascus"), whence English damson. Loss of initial d- probably due to metanalysis as the preposition de (dameixa → d'ameixa → de ameixa).

• Hyphenation: a‧mei‧xa

ameixa f (plural ameixas)

1. plum (fruit)