agruñeiro

Galician

agruños or abruños, fruits of the agruñeiro or abruñeiro

Alternative forms

abruñeiro, gruñeiro
agrunheiro (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Latin prūnus (“plum tree”), probably under the influence of Proto-Celtic *agrinyos (“sloe”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aɣɾuˈɲejɾo̝/

Noun

agruñeiro m (plural agruñeiros)

Alternative form of abruñeiro: blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)

Related terms

abruño (“sloe”)
agruño (“sloe”)

References

“agruñeiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
“agruñeiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“abruñeiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Cf. Grzega, Joachim (2001) Romania Gallica Cisalpina etymologisch-geolinguistische Studien zu den oberitalienisch-rätoromanischen Keltizismen‎, Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, →ISBN, retrieved 26 August 2015, page 53. – via De Gruyter.
Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 27-28.

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