ibón

See also: ibon

Aragonese

FWOTD – 6 October 2012

Etymology

Probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia; if Indo-European, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (compare Proto-Celtic *abū, abonos (river)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈbon/
  • Rhymes: -on
  • Syllabification: i‧bón

Noun

ibón m (plural ibons)

  1. tarn; a small mountain lake (especially one in the Aragonese Pyrenees)
    ibón d'Estanés, ibón de Plan, ibón de Sabocos
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    • 2000, Francho Nagore Laín, quoting Chusé Aragüés, Homenaje a Rafael Andolz: estudios sobre la cultura popular, la tradición y la lengua en Aragón, Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses (Diputación de Huesca), page 659:
      As nuestras lainas son mullers polidas y guallardas que gosan amanixer en as redolanzas d’as fuens, arrigachuelos, ibons y bibers.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

  • estrela d'ibón (water starwort)

Descendants

  • Spanish: ibón

References

  • ibón”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Further reading

Spanish

Ibón de Estanés

Etymology

Borrowed from Aragonese ibón, probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia; if Indo-European, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (compare Proto-Celtic *abū, abonos (river)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈbon/ [iˈβ̞õn]
  • Rhymes: -on
  • Syllabification: i‧bón

Noun

ibón m (plural ibones)

  1. (especially Aragon) small lake; tarn
    • 1832, Francisco X. de Cabanes, Memoria acerca del establecimiento de Aguas Minerales de Panticosa, page 3:
      Estas fuentes ó torrentes de diversa magnitud se forman con las aguas de los ibones de donde proceden, y tienen la denominacion siguiente.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

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