engadir

From the older *enhadir (with <nh> /ŋ/),[1] from Old Galician-Portuguese ẽader (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *innaddere, from in- (“in”) +‎ addēre (“to add”), from Latin addēre, present active infinitive of addō. Cognate to Spanish añadir and Old Galician-Portuguese emadir.[2]

• IPA^(key): [eŋɡaˈðiɾ]

engadir (first-person singular present engado, first-person singular preterite engadín, past participle engadido)
engadir (first-person singular present engado, first-person singular preterite engadim or engadi, past participle engadido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to add on, to append

   Synonym: amecer

2. to add
   • 1895, Antonio López Ferreiro, A tecedeira de Bonaval. A Coruña: Andrés Martínez, Editor, page 46:

     pouco ou nada se pode engadir ao que el acaba de espresar con tanta verdá e elocuencia

     little or rather nothing can be added to what he has just expressed so truly and eloquently

   Synonym: agregar

• engandir mal a peor

• “eader” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “eadia” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “engadir” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “engadir” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “engadir” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.