xeira

xeira

Galician

Etymology

From an older jeyra, geyra, from Medieval Latin diāria (“daily”), from Latin diēs (“day”). Cognate with Spanish jera.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃejɾa̝̝/

Noun

xeira f (plural xeiras)

1. day's work

   Synonym: xornal

2. work; task
3. tiredness
4. land which can be plowed in a day with a single pair of oxen
   • 1451, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 133:

     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

5. day's walk; journey; road
6. time worked for a neighbour or for the community, in exchange for a future similar help
7. series

Related terms

• contraxeira

References

• “xeira” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “xeira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “xeira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “xeira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “jera”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos