isqueiro

Galician

Alternative forms

esqueiro

Etymology

Circa 1300. From isca +‎ -eiro.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /isˈkejɾo̝/

Noun

isqueiro m (plural isqueiros)

small container for tinder
- c. 1300, R. Martínez López, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 220:
  y achou cõ aquel arco hum estormento, et seu esqueyro, et sua ysca, et seu pedernal em el
  there he found, together with that bow, a tinderbox, with its tinder container, its tinder, and its flint inside it

References

“squeyro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“isqueiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“isqueiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Portuguese

Etymology

From isca (“tinder”) +‎ -eiro. Compare Spanish yesquero.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈke(j).ɾu/ [isˈke(ɪ̯).ɾu]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃˈke(j).ɾu/ [iʃˈke(ɪ̯).ɾu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈke(j).ɾo/ [isˈke(ɪ̯).ɾo]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃˈkɐj.ɾu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃˈkej.ɾu/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃˈkej.ɾu/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃˈke.ɾu/

Hyphenation: is‧quei‧ro

Noun

isqueiro m (plural isqueiros)

lighter (fire making device)

Further reading

isqueiro on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

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