cancil
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Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a substrate term *cambica (etymon of canga), derived with the Latin suffix -īle: *cambicīle; from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kh₂emb- (“to bend, curve”). Cognate with Portuguese canzil.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cancil m (plural cancís)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “cancil” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cancil” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cancil” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “canga”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos