gouño
Galician
Etymology
From *acauniu, from a local Celtic substrate language, from Proto-Celtic *akaunon (“stone”),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱmō.[2] Doublet of con and coio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɡowɲʊ]
Noun
gouño m (plural gouños)
- pebble
- Synonyms: coio, croio
- boulder
- Synonym: con
- outcrop
- Synonym: laxe
Related terms
- engouñar
- esgouñar
- gouña
References
- “gouño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “gouño” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “gouño” 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), “con II”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
- Cf. Xavier Delamarre (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, →ISBN, pages 30-31.