panasco

Galician

Etymology

Unknown. Attested since circa 1750. Perhaps from pano +‎ -asco.[1] Alternatively, from a substrate language, from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“moist; wet; mud; swamp; water”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [paˈnaskʊ]

Noun

panasco m (plural panascos)

turf
- 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega:
  Corría por aquel monte tripando toxos, carrascos, e levantaba panascos que lexos guindaba atrás
  He ran around that hill treading gorses, heathers, and drawing turfs that he tossed far back
grass; meadow

Derived terms

Panascal

References

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

Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “paño”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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[1] Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “paño”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos