Reconstruction:Old Galician-Portuguese/çenoyra

This Old Galician-Portuguese entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

    Borrowed from Old Spanish çenoria, borrowed from Andalusian Arabic *سَفُنَّارْيَة (*safunnārya), from Arabic إِسْفَنَارِيَّة (ʔisfanāriyya), borrowed from Ancient Greek σταφυλίνη (staphulínē, “carrot”) or ἀγρία (agría, “wild”).

    Noun

    *çenoyra f (plural *çenoyras)

    1. carrot

    Usage notes

    Only attested as a surname.

    Derived terms

    • Çenoyra

    Descendants

    • Fala: cenoira
    • Galician: cenoria
    • Portuguese: cenoura, cenoira

    References

    • Machado, José Pedro (1989), “Cenoura”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa [Etymological dictionary of the Portuguese language] (in Portuguese), 5 edition, volume II (C–E), Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 114, column 2
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