estinga

estinga

Galician

estinga

Alternative forms

• tinga, raia tinga

Etymology

Documented at least since the 18th century; perhaps borrowed from English stingray rather than an old loanword from Suevic or Gothic.[1] Ultimatelly from Proto-Germanic *stinganą, whence also Old Norse stinga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈtiŋɡa̝/

Noun

estinga f (plural estingas)

1. stingray.
   • 1788, Cornide Saavedra, José. Ensayo para una historia de los peces ... de la costa de Galicia, page 127:

     Tambien se dá en gallego el nombre de Raya tinga ó estinga [..] á una especie de Pastinaca mas blanca que la comun

     Also, in Galician they call raia tinga or estinga to some kind of stingray that is whiter than the common one

2. (obsolete) an instrument used by brass workers.

Synonyms

• raia estriga

References

• “estinga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “estinga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

1. That's the opinion of J. L. Pensado in page 190 of his edition of Martin Sarmiento's Catálogo de voces y frases gallegas: Sarmiento, Martín (1973). Pensado, J.L., ed. Catálogo de voces y frases gallegas. Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca. →ISBN.