miuca – Old Portuguese noun declension

Old Portuguese noun forms of miuca

Noun: miuca
Gender: Hyphenation:
Singular mmiuca
Singular fmiuca; miuca
Plural mmiucas
Plural fmiucas

Sample Sentences

  • Para esto ual a çebolla assada pisada con miucas da terra et con as llesmez et con manteyga rretuda desuu, todo amasado et coyto et meixudo todo ataa que se tome espeso como jngento (For this is valid roasted onion crushed with earthworms and with slugs and melted butter, all together, kneaded and cooked and stirred till is thick as an ointment) [1420, Álvaro Eans das Eiras, transl., Tratado de Albeitaria, translation of De Medicina Equorum by Giordano Ruffo, page 131:]

Nouns inflected like miuca

miuca, brasa, semesuga, lagartixa,

Etymology

1. Uncertain. Given the Asturian cognates (milu, meruca) and some current Galician (mioca, moca) and Portuguese forms (mioca), perhaps from *milo- + -oca, or *milokka, from a substrate language. The modern forms Portuguese minhoca and Galician miñoca are due to progressive nasalization, as minha, miña from Latin mea.
2. If related to or derived from Proto-Celtic *mīlom (“animal”), then from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (“small animal”). See: Portuguese Nouns 'minhoca', Galician Nouns 'miñoca'.

Verbs referencing "miuca"

Portuguese Nouns minhoca, Galician Nouns miñoca.

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