leñame
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /leˈɲame/ [leˈɲa.me]
- Rhymes: -ame
- Syllabification: le‧ña‧me
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Italian legname or Old Catalan lenyam (modern llenyam); either way from Early Medieval Latin lignāmen.
References
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “leña”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 631
Further reading
- “leñame”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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